Sacred Silence

Silence is a mystery to me
As to others is the depths of the sea
What lurks beneath it's murky surface?
Does it really inspire poetry?

Where does it come from and how does it happen?
This silence that has left my brain mis-shapen.
This silence I have never heard.
I think those who have heard it are mistaken!

Why has it eluded me all of these years?
I want to experience sound absent from my ears!
To hear nothing, not a whisper.
To be the same as my peers.