Silence rarely ends in a whisper For it is too common that life And all its accoutrements Begins with it's rival ... BANG! ... Leaving behind all certainty that solitude Is commonplace in the universe wide Nay, sound is all around us! It reverberates in our very molecules Enticing us to sway and flow With the motion of space itself Which is ever expanding like a balloon In the process of inflation Continually getting bigger and bigger Louder and louder Until critical mass is achieved With the world we dance upon Sitting at the very epicenter of tragedy Whereas all matter reverses course To crunch with a ... BANG! ... Leading to the first whisper of silence