Stillness

The birdsong’s interrupted by

The lawn machine next door.

I cannot hear the tweets and trills

Above the mower’s roar.

An airplane flies by overhead;

The garbage truck makes beeps,

But suddenly, the man-made noises

Cease and there are cheeps.

Though sounds of nature coexist

With man’s cacophony,

Cessation of the latter

Brings a stillness sweet to me.