To hear the silence

that follows the word of oneself. Murmur

of the least stone

shaped in the image

of earth, and those who would speak

to be nothing

but the voice that speaks them

to the air.

And he will tell

of each thing he sees in this space,

and he will tell it to the very wall

that grows before him:

and for this, too, there will be a voice,

although it will not be his.

Even though he speaks.

And because he speaks.