Silence is a great blue bell br Swinging and ringing, tinkling and singing, br In measure’s pleasure, and in the supple symmetry br of the soaring of the immense intense wings br glinting against br All the blue radiance above us and within us, hidden br Save for the stars sparking, distant and unheard in their br singing. br And this is the first meaning of the famous saying, br The stars sang. They are the white birds of silence br And the meaning of the difficult famous saying that the br sons and daughters of morning sang, br Meant and means that they were and they are the children br of God and morning, br Delighting in the lights of becoming and the houses of br being, br Taking pleasure in measure and excess, in listening as in br seeing. br br Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. br Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of br love. br br So that when the great blue bell of silence is stilled and br stopped or broken br By the babel and chaos of desire unrequited, irritated and br frustrated, br When the heart has opened and when the heart has spoken br Not of the purity and symmetry of gratification, but action br of insatiable distraction’s dissatisfaction, br br Then the heart says, in all its blindness and faltering br emptiness: br There is no God. Because I am hope. And hope must be br fed. br And then the great blue bell of silence is deafened, dumbed, br and has become the tomb of the living dead.