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