Silence is boring me to life.

Sitting in darkness,<br/><br/>I feel my heartbeat<br/><br/>drumming life awake<br/><br/>with percussive reverberation<br/><br/>My breath,<br/><br/>the wind of whispers<br/><br/>basks in the haunted eeriness,<br/><br/>knowing we have morning's ear.<br/><br/>Nothing said,<br/><br/>so nothing left to say.<br/><br/>For sudden movements<br/><br/>threaten the crystalline waters<br/><br/>It is here,<br/><br/>I hear,<br/><br/>silence in full majesty.<br/><br/>Nothing said,<br/><br/>nothing left to say.<br/><br/>As the in-between time,<br/><br/>the passing of the guard,<br/><br/>where night meets morn,<br/><br/>where colour hides in shadows<br/><br/>Song is yet to take hold<br/><br/>Nothing said,<br/><br/>nothing left to say.<br/><br/>Hello Hedge School,<br/><br/>The world's scream has gotten the better of me lately. Chatter, distraction, vices, I've used them all to plug my ears. No room for a breath of my own. A second for myself. A silent space to listen with any depth at all. <br/><br/>I'm responsible for the scream volume. Amplified by porous boundaries, I've jumped at all the noises in the night. Reacted to every sound and movement, seemingly frightened by the silence that beckons me. <br/><br/>Constant gorging a space filler.<br/>A run from stillness. <br/>A run from emptiness. <br/>A run from silence.<br/><br/>I'm not afraid of silence. Deep down I yearn for it. <br/><br/>The ego, however, cowers at the sound of silence. <br/><br/>The ego dials up the dopamine volume, yearning for a light in the darkness of solitude. <br/><br/>Constant stimuli, the antidote to boring. <br/><br/>For stillness is boring. <br/>But not as you think. Stillness bores deep into our soul, wading past the shiny labels, worldview narratives and to-do lists to a deeper place. To a place where the words find you. A place where one can hear the language of poetry. The language of place. <br/><br/><em>"The language of poetry issues from and returns from silence. All words come from silence."</em><br/><br/><strong><em>John O'Donohue - Anam Cara