the silence
in this house is deafning
it echoes down thew halls
it saturates the wall

Death
past & due
it lingers there
in every unspoken word
in the silence
the silence is heard

old memories
his & mine

mom dies
and now he's alone
in his lonliness
in his alone-ness

ella's gone
she's moved on
to another man
catch as catch can

and he & i
we sit in the silence
and we cry
not from our eyes
we both know the whys
old age & negelct
whataya' expect
don't take a sage
ta' respect

the movin' on
& the goin' on
the reviews
the true s

but it hangs there
in the Silence
in the air
in what's unsaid

that book
left unread