Eight-line Poems

Silence

Silence

Silence is the friend that never chides,
the words that don’t need speaking,
the absence that still has presence,
no answer yet replete with meaning,
not rude nor pushy, ever civil,
temperate, uncritical and kind,
always unnoticed in the crowd,
with soothing gifts of peace of mind.


Line Count: 8
Free Verse
For Express It In Eight, Sept. 23 2020
Prompt: Silence.