Moment of Silence: zellie_bean

red_trillium linked to this memorial post about zellie_bean's passage.  I knew zellie_bean from crossing paths with her in various friends' journals, and she has been on my Friends list also. We weren't especially close, but it's always a bit of a bump to realize that a familiar voice is gone.  She will be missed.  So I wrote this...

in this acre of voices
conversations never still
and yet silence comes
unexpectedly
as one speaker falls quiet

a stone sinks through the water
breaching the still pond's silence
the ripples spread out
the center grows smooth
rings ebb toward eternity