Hello darkness, my oldfriend, I have come to talk with you again, because a vision softlycreeping, left its seeds while I was sleeping, and the vision thatwas planted in my brain still remains with in the sound ofsilence.
In restless dreams I walked alone narrow streets of cobblestone,neath the halo of a streetlamp, I turned my collar to the cold anddamp when my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light thatsplit the night and touched the sound of silence.
And in the naked light I saw ten thousand people, maybe more.people talking without speaking, people hearing without listening,people writing songs that voice never share and no one dareddisturb the sound of silence.
"Fools" said I, you do not know silence like a cancer grows. Hearmy words that I might teach you take my arms that I might reachyou. But my words like silent raindrops fell, and echoed in thewells of silence.
And the people bowed and prayed to the neon god they made. And thesign flashed out its warning in the words that it was forming. andthe sign said, the words of the prophets are written on the subwaywalls and tenement halls. and whispered in the sounds ofsilence.
你好黑夜,我的老朋友,我又来和你聊天了,因为那悄声无息蔓延的幻觉在我梦里播下了种子,那被种在我意识中的感觉依旧还属于寂静之声。
在那不平静的梦里,我独自漫步,在圆石铺成的窄路上,在街灯的光晕下光的闪烁刺破了黑夜,当它刺痛我的眼睛时,我卷起衣领挡住寒冷和潮湿,并触摸到寂静之声。
在裸光下我看到上万个人,也许更多他们不发一语却在交谈,他们不用聆听却能听到,他们能够写出无声的歌,没有人敢打破寂静之声。
我说,“傻瓜们,你们难道不知道寂静就像癌细胞一样蔓延。听听我要教你们的话语,接驻我伸向你们的手臂。但我的话语像寂静的雨点下落,然后在寂静的水井中发出回响。
他们弯下腰像一座发着乃光的神像祈祷。而这个象征用它正在散发的言语发出提醒。他说,预言写在隧道的墙上和屋子的大厅里。然后用寂静之声呢喃着。