Gift

     You tell me that silence

is nearer to peace than poems

but if for my gift

I brought you silence

(for I know silence)

you would say

     This is not silence

this is another poem

and you would hand it back to me.

--- Leonard Cohen (1961)

Amantium irae amoris integratio'st --- Terence, in a statement that is more often than not untrue.