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April 9, 2002

quiet

Quiet.

It is no more absence of noise,
than heat is want of cold.

The life force,
before it is manifest.

The silence of a child's growth,
and a man marking time.

Quiet, as I have come to know it,
has a sound all its own.

©  2002 by the beastmaster