If Silence Could Speak

If I were the Silence
What would I say?
What would compel me
To throw Silence away?

Would I speak with a voice
Calm, free of regret?
Would I whisper a prayer
Filled with hope, but yet…

Would I make a false start
And then change my mind
Would the thoughts I see swirling
Take form or rewind?

If I were the Silence
What stories I’d tell
Of people who loved
And people who fell

With wisdom beside me
I ponder and think
For Silence no more
I am once I speak.