Still

Imagine a still
nights so deep 
winds so calm 
barely a breeze
an evasive silence 
that’s so deafening 
that a cricket 
chirps its faraway 
song like tympani 
an empty mind
that’s so saturating 
that its bath
water never cools 
then imagine this 
that you have 
finally found the 
gateway to that
are you ever 
willing to go 
back to what
it was before 
I think not