Silence

What is the silence
the mystics speak of?
For some it is the quiet
of a morning walk
through the forest.

For others it is
the imagined quiet
of a morning walk
through the forest.

Yet as far away
an imagined quiet is
from quiet itself,
so to is silence
from quiet.

It is neither
of the imagination,
nor worldly;
nor is it of the divine,
it is divine!