Shapeless shadows, in silence listening, <br />Deepest feelings in restraint, <br />A silent voice calls in mournful feeling, <br />We move in silence, voices faint. <br /> <br />Harmful silence touches the soul, <br />A larger loneliness laid untold, <br />So speak only when you must, <br />Infinite dread, a knife's deep thrust. <br /> <br />Darkness and silence lay so long, <br />Self control from dusk to dawn. <br />Awful darkness and silence reign, <br />Over the lifeless, barren, Iraqi plain. <br /> <br />Crouching down when nothing stirs, <br />Mysterious night, we temper her. <br />Rocklike hardness in our mind, <br />Tryant silence steals our time. <br /> <br />No echo sounding when I speak, <br />Body trembles, silence deep. <br />We shall remain thousands of miles away, <br />Uneasy silence, dreadful day.<br /><br />Philip Lore<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/silence-in-battle/
