Auguries Of Silence

My voice has been lost
In a desert swirl
My dreams have been trampled
Under the hooves of distrust
But I continue to listen
To the howling winds 
To love  the roaring sea 
To admire the setting sun
I love the warmth
Of muddy rivers
And the lingering aroma
Of the good red earth
I love the sight of a shooting star
And the mystique of Halley’s cometMessages reach me 
Through rain drops, sandstorms
And blades of grass
And through the frantic flapping
Of a humming bird’s wings
In my heart is the undying yearning
And a plaintive song
That expresses everything
To which I belong:
Take me, come take me
To where - before silence -
Conceptualization of everything
In the universe was born
Take me to where the elements are wild
To the place where I am still a child