The Sound of Silence
Shhh…
Do you hear the swooshing
of the waves on the shore?
Do you hear the shush of the wind
as it sweeps low and hisses like
the slithering snake winding through
the graveyard on the hush of dark wings?
The fear that reverberates
like the rolling thunder
with each thump of one’s heart—
Do you hear its silent echoes
in the dead of night?
And this melancholy moon
with its eerie silvery glow
spawns what a frightful folklore?
Beneath this distant firmament
with its myriad peering eyes