the sounds of silence

I sit in my living room and look out my windows

there is blue sky out the front of my house and grey out the back

I have been sick and alone in my house for 2 days now

the only sounds are my stuffed-up-nose-breathing and

the air conditioner running full speed

Molly is in Houston with her cousins

Carson is at basketball camp until bedtime

Todd has been working hard

Silence is golden, they say

and I think it is true

a few days of physical and mental silence

and recovery can make a person whole again