I

When you returned 
so did noise 
and noise now 
is often irritating 
whereas before it
was exciting I
have discovered that 
silence is the 
lagoon where peace 
and serenity swim 
it is absence 
from the sound 
of gears grinding 
I have once 
again switched off 
the machine and 
found my way
back through the 
pass of aloneness 
shedding distractions clothes 
swimming naked in 
a pond called 
me myself I