Silence and darkness comfort me The soft glow of white snow rising through my window The black silhouettes of the trees against the dark gray skies The silence like a continuously whispered promise The steady stillness feeling omnipresent and everlasting And as the darkness creeps further and further into me I calm more and more, the quiet enveloping all The night is a comfort and the quiet is reassurance That all is well even when it is to be broken by the rising of the sun