Quiet Places

I find you in my quiet places,
The ones I forgot to lock before you arrived.

I find you in my quiet places,
Where the noise hasn't reached yet,
Where I still recognize my own voice.

I find you in my quiet places,
Tell me, is that where you meant to be,
Or did you stumble in
Like a light through a gap I didn't know was there?

I find you in my quiet places,
And I don't know what to do with that,
I've been so long out, in the loud.

I find you in my quiet places,
Not in the wanting, not in the reaching,
Only when I've stopped.

I find you in my quiet places,
And I wonder if you feel it too,
Or if I'm the only one
Standing still
In a room that doesn't know it's holding something.

I find you in my quiet places.

I find you in my quiet places,
And maybe that's enough,
You see,
Because I've run out of words for the other kinds of love,
The loud ones,
The ones that left marks.

You are here in the silence
And the silence, for once,
Doesn't frighten me.