Paradox

It is now 
and in this 
where I find
that my peace 
rests in silence 
being absent from 
not absent to
quiets what’s been 
what I knew 
as my humanity 
emotion makes not
one only hope 
but gives rise 
to one’s despair 
being absent from 
gives one an
unbridled compassion for 
everything that is 
that is not 
the paradox human