Scott Simpson · Poetry

Stillness Is Not Empty

Use For Kindling · source pages 45

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Someone told me silence

is the voice of God.

I thought, how strange that the

holiest voice would whisper nothing.

But then, in the woods, when I stopped talking—

when I didn’t even hum as I walked—

I heard it:

the language

of my own thoughts,

the creak of a pine,

the soft letting go of something

I no longer needed.