Silence Is a Stranger Here
Noises,
Like friendly street gamins,
Clutter my path.
A few brush by me
With their echoes,
While others,
Nudging and jostling,
Surround me with a mob
Of sound.
From a sheltered pause,
Into outgoing vistas,
A grey-hushed figure
Hastens by.
Silence
Is a stranger here.
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