Sound of Silence

I have heard many people say that the silence is deafening,
I guess they are so used to the noise that they find this threatening.
We love to say speech is silver and silence is golden,
but alas its an adage we give a thought about very seldom.
You can run, you can hide but you cannot escape silence, its within you,
Just like your shadow walks with you every step of the way even when you don't want it to.
Silence is not just observed by the thinkers or the dead,
it can show us where we are right now and where we are headed.
Observe the placid waters clearly, one stone thrown and millions of ripples appear,
Just like one stray sound can make the silence disappear.
There is no escaping the sound of silence, its within you, that is clear,
it goes with you everywhere and is present whenever you want it to appear.