Enjoying the Silence

In silence I lie, right now. Not absolute silence; I can hear the soft clicking of the keyboard when I write this, and the faint humming of the hard-disk. But the night is quiet. No traffic outside, no-one else awake, no music from the stereo, no TV pumping information. Nothing. I lie here in silence, both aural and visual. The faint light of the bedside lamp is all the illumination I need to be able to write this. And except for that lamp, silence is one with me tonight.

I lie in silence. And I enjoy the silence. I am in silence.