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
