il Silenzio-----(The Silence)

The silence that I feel 
inside my heart
is the same quietness that
the majestic mountains know
when a fresh snowfall
covers their peaks
in a down blanket.

Even though they know
the coming silent 
springtime sunlight
will send its frozen cover
to the streams and rivers.

It is the silence
of a moonless night
where not even the
wings of a nocturnal moth
cause a sound to be heard

Hush says the librarian
as the rows of dusty books
keep their silent vigil.

The taunting silence of the
nocturnal nightingale.
compounding the quietness
of the breaking day.