Let Silence Sing Your Words to Sleep

When the night has lingered and danced over waters
close to your words, do you wish to scream out
to the very heart of the Milky Way?
Do you set foot in the places
where youth looks back at its end,
or find yourself asking about
 tomorrow’s words while spinning wheels
 of fire that torment your days?

Do you sometimes find yourself
bound in a shower of eager shouts
 that sail by chance into nowhere’s crown,
not knowing if the sun or moon
speaks to your blood in praises
 of those sounds.  

When you find you cannot sleep
because your senses have forgotten
 how the earth and sky watches
over the ones that you love,
shielding them in the armor of your heart.  
This is when a sea of words
becomes a ghost
 predestined to help you
see your way out.

Perhaps, if you persuaded your now,
to dance over waters
 close to your words,
you would not want to fall asleep,
 but have that ghost sit beside your bed
and sing awhile.
 You might find the courage
to expose your soul
has passed.

When the night lingers seeking acknowledgement
that it has unlocked your soul,
look out the window of your roaring mind.
Listen for the silence.
 It has a rhythm that will drown
every syllable you see.
Silence is the ghost
that will sing your words to sleep.

Author's Note

On those nights when you can't shut your mind off and you want to write everything you hold inside, let silence sing your words to sleep.........but only if you want too.......

Reviews

[anne p. murray- LadeeAn..]

What a beautiful, caring poem to share. Such comfort for all who are troubled or can't sleep (I am very familiar with insomnia)
Your words are so comforting, reassurring, hopeful and filled with compassion and sensitivity. I'm making a copy of this to post on my wall

Silencing the mind they say is just before dawn when there’s a moment of complete silence where both the last singers of the night and the first of the day stop, as though holding their breath, waiting to see if the sun will indeed come again. I’ve gotten up early sometimes, just to hear that silence.

I always have nights like these where sleep just seems right out of reach because I seem to have a racing mind full of thoughts that my mind refuses to put off until the next day. Great work.

[joshua deathdealer]

This is a beautiful write. Serene it seems after being reminded that earth and sky watches over the ones I love!!

[unknown]

I so feel this because my writers block has been pretty bad lately, I did let the silence sing my words to sleep :)

[brenda]

beauitful night is like my safe place i love it the silence but sometimes its just not silence when theirs cats fighting outside my window and no like i mean rela cats its noisy but yes but you decribe in the poem i fel the same way too nice write neva :)

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This was sooo beautiful Neva :)

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When the night lingers seeking acknowledgement
that it has unlocked your soul,
look out the window of your roaring mind.
Listen for the silence.
It has a rhythm that will drown
every syllable you see.
Silence is the ghost
that will sing your words to sleep.


I love that, also when all the cares of this world, all the things that one worries about, that wont let you mind shut off and you just want peace and a little rest, let silence sing your words to sleep.

How comforting this is. I shall remember this one at night.
Wonderful poem

[Pax Analog]

Indeed, silence is even the "Holy Ghost," as it were, w/no need to theologize further. When space and stillness are allowed, a radically simple mode of being arises.

Your eloquent poem expresses perennial wisdom, wrapped in brooding compassionate care, flashing bright in a midnite sky. Beautiful accompanying image, as well.

[kdpgrahi]

Beautiful as usual. To make silence a ghost is an interesting idea.

[Zeitgeist Manifesto]

I have been in the bed in those nights where I just couldn't turn my brain off. This perfectly captures the frantic nature of the thoughts that stir in our heads. Sometimes I suppose we just need to learn to let go. You took a complicated thing and made it so simple. It reminds me of how the elders direct us to leave things in God's hands.

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"Silence is the ghost
that will sing your words to sleep."
the picture is just perfect for this poem and your grandeur with imagery is just amazingly the same! you weave magic with words..gives them life and they just dance in front of me every single time i have read a poem of yours!
excellent!^^