Silence

Silence - a tricky beast to track down

a solitary creature

elusive

nocturnal  

ephemeral - yet ever present

there under all of lifes "hub-bub" 

grabbed in fleeting moments 

down in a secret corner 

late at night

after a train has passed

a moment caught sat in your garden

down a high street 

long after the shops have shut

before the pubs kick-out

when the noise from the nighttime revellers 

scares it back into the dark recesses 

to wait until natures calm returns

the hushed dead of night

the hours of stillness

the time of the urban fox

of star filled skies

and the silence of the moon

then...

displaced by the rising sun

just before a new day dawns

it is gone once more

displaced by the noise of the modern world...

and back to the shadows