What the Silence Said
Not one spoke out
Not one voice heard
Not one desperate cry
Not one hopeless shout
Just silence
The smell of smoke still lingers
Scorching through the blazing skies
No place for love
No place for fear
Just silence
The charred trees don't tell their secrets
But the image still hurts
Flames burning everything
Suffocating
Children
Friends
Family
Lost souls trapped in the bowels of darkness
The forest takes a vow
A moment of silence
To remember
The fallen nomads
To remember
All the suffering
Pain
Wounds
Tragedies
They've survived
To remember
They were strong
And only the small acorn
From the dying trees trapped in this black world
Spoke out from the silence
