I will try, like them
to be my own silence:
and this is difficult. The whole
world is secretly on fire.

That is an excerpt from "In Silence", a short poem by Thomas Merton. I found it on Ivan Granger's blog, and he kindly gave me permission to link to it here. It's one of my absolute favorite poems, and I hope some of you will love it as I do.

Here's the link: http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/2008/07/16/thomas-merton-in-silence/#comment-4015