Silence

What does your silence mean?

Does it mean that you have had enough

Of counting rings on the rainbow?

Or of kissing and cajoling?

Or of the deep conversations?

Or the care in my heart that will never die?

Does it mean you have had enough of me?

Or rather that I hamper with your peace?

Or that you don't want me anymore?

Or does it mean that you are coping,

And that you just need your own time?

Or is it that I don't interest you anymore?

Or that I've been more a handful than sound?

Or does it mean you've found better breasts

And better listening ears?

Or does it mean simply this is how you deal with love,

Generally? You've shifted so quickly all the gears!

I surmise and I feel fallen,

Brought to my knees with silent giant tears,

I'm coping with this strange silence all around me

And I need clarity to deal with my fears.

I could promise you a million words

But I think I'll hold my tongue, 

Answer your silence with my silence

And at this fun game I have won.

I feel like I'm playing chess

And the mate is just this step

And that nigh impossible is my heart stretched

To wondrous new-found depths of this silence

That I have found,

To find me,

To become me,

More whole,

More unbound,

So silently I beseech you,

To turn towards,

Turn again

To talking point.