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ALL IS QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 February 2010

Donald W. Strauss
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Poetry/Fiction: Poems
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Palliative & Supportive Care , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , March 2010, pp. 103
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

What? What? I can't hear you; oh I am sorry you said nothing.
Was that nothing the key to all we need to know?
Silence, silence and the beating of our own heart: does its silence scare you? Do you miss what is being said without words when you fill the silence to keep the “boogieman” away from your own head?
Therapists talk; some more and some less but they all talk.
How much good work could a mute do in his silence?
Silence heals; every word pushes the real stuff farther away.
What? What? I can't hear you; oh I am sorry you said nothing.
Sweet, sweet healing silence that is always with us and seldom loved.
Silence—listening, silence—listening, silence embraces all in its warm transparent cloak.
Silence.