Searching For Silence

We sit quietly.....
Listening for the silence.....
We search for that quiet place....
A place where the clutter of the world around us stops....
We long for a switch to turn off the noise.....

But the noise continues.....
The mind won't stop speeding from thought to thought....
Memories from the past and present continue running a muck, without any sign of stopping.....
We long to sit quietly and hear the silence....
We long to feel the embrace of warmth and solitude.....

Some search for their inner peace through mantras and meditation....
Some find their peace in prayer with their maker.....
Some try and try and never get to that the soothing place.....
Some just want it to stop....
Some long for that switch to turn off the noise.....

We just want to find some peace in the world.....
We want to find the silence....
We long to sit quietly in the shadows.....
We long to feel the release.....
We long for the serenity.....

But the world around us can be a formidable place....
Our troubles can be a turbulent plot......
Our road can be filled with thorns.....
Our mind works and works and works....
We long for that switch to turn off the noise.....

So we sit....
We wait....
We try to let go....
We try not to try.....
We search for the silence.....