Love is silent

You have opened the rusted locks and bolts holding the heavy gates shut
And what was inside was unstable
You are quiet
Love was in your hands when you opened my heart

Acceptance was in your silence
Joy was in you voice and musings
And in the calmness of your embrace
 you taught me about love without conditions

Love is sometimes noisy through dreams
Very loud on contact
deafening through your smile
thunderous through your touch

Your love is silent and constant, behind the lights and empty promises of the outside world
For noisy love is only evidence of noise in a city of cacophony

You have cleaned those heavy once rusted gates
You have oiled the hinges they are now unjammed
Polished the steel and mended the fallen spires
And you have locked yourself in there where love is silent and real