Listen and Silent

"Listen and Silent are spelled with the same letters––coincidence? 

I don't think so. " Alfred Brendel

Silent

 by Elece Hollis

Have you ever listened

 to the sound 

of a single candle 

flickering in a dark place? 

   

 Have you ever listened
to the power

of a whispered prayer 

in the center of a crisis? 

Have you ever listened 

to the thunder 

of one soft kind word

 in the midst 

of an angry crowd?

Have you ever listened

to different?

Have you ever listened?