Paint the Silence

[Thing to remember is if we're all alone, we're all together in that too.]

If you could paint the silence,
What colour would you paint it?
Would you paint it black
Like the night and taint it?

Or grey like the rubble
After a tempest clears?
Or white like your troubled
Eyes in tears?

Would you paint it yellow
Like a great oak on fire?
Or purple like smoke billowing
Higher and higher?

Or red like a jawan
With an arrow to his heart?
Or blue like an
Unused saxophone’s art?

Would you paint it brown
To resemble old buildings
In a tumbledown town
Where love is unyielding?

Enough of this disquieting quiet I think -
I pick up some paper and a bottle of ink
And scream out loud in a language so coloured
I paint the silence in hues it's never heard