Silence

I am the homing pigeon who can never go home

Drowning in “I’m sorry”

I am the repellent child too often told to ‘go away’

Drowning in “I’m sorry”

I am the outcast Judas hiding in the witness tree

Drowning in “I’m sorry”

And in the raw ugly wound

Where there should be forgiveness there is silence

Where there should be comfort there is silence

Where there should be love there is silence.

There is only silence.

Originally written 2006