Soundtrack of life

Listen ~ 6  minutes

There is in our world no real
silence. I noticed this in
a moment of stillness
The neighbour's dog barks
The distant sound of the train
The furnace rumbling gently
in the background People
talking A helicopter
and geese .... .... I draw to
Hummingbird to teach me
stillness in motion And it is
the sound of her wings
that alert me she is here ....

In the quiet of the night I hear
the beating of my own
heart And imagine
or perhaps not imagine
that I can also hear the rush
Of the rivers of blood
through my veins Accompanied
by breath flowing from
my own breathing
Gentle in
gentle out ....

We have to work at total silence
noise cancelling headphones ....
When I tried it I was so
disconcerted I took them off
again .... That total silence cut
me off from the world I knew
Even going under water
where the sounds of the shore
recede Is not silence
replaced instead by echoes
carried on the waves ....

Somehow I have missed
the fact that sounds are part
of the connection that I have
To everything really
So many levels of connection ....
Some which Gently remind us
of each other and some
that insist we pay attention ....
Some which we hear
not only with our ears
but through our whole bodies

I miss the sound of your
voice as much as our touch .... ....

As I listen to the sounds
that surround me I
realize this is the soundtrack
Of life This is the sound
of how we live .... It creates
Song Memory Poetry .... ....

It is .... ​

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