The Weight Of Silence Poem by Helen Gaudin

Can a scientist measure the weight of silence?

I sit in the silence and feel the weight pressing down
Inside my head a soundless voice crying out
Needing to break the barrier that surrounds the space
Silence full of pent up emotion
So smoothly impermeable and densely compacted

How many kilograms of silence weigh upon a metre of space?

Every centimetre of skin is alive to the pressure silence brings to bear
All sound is crushed under the weight
No word is spoken
But we all know

Silence creates the loudest statement