My Name Is Silence Poem by RIC BASTASA

when i introduced
my name to you
i know i have violated
the code of my
ancestors
i know i have disobeyed
the command of my
father

because silence
cannot be uttered
and uttering it
simply negates its
essence

when you write about
silence
the word begins to
shout
and silence runs away
losing itself
like light blending
with light and then
what you see
is nothing

but itself in invisibility
hiding in its own body