Silent Lucidity - Queensrÿche

You're lying safe in bed - Degarmo

Sometimes, Silence is the only way to clear the mind of the cacophony of daily life. I live on quite a busy road in Cardiff and can be seen often shouting at drivers as they speed well over the 20mph limit in what can only be described as a 'Victor Meldrew' type way - Yet past ten at night and it becomes a very tranquil street with only a few cars, and I often lie listening to the sound of silence.

It kinda reflects how my mind feels constantly agitated in every waking hour as the busy traffic of the day roars through my brain, which then speeds from one thought to another.

But later comes a silence. The peace and the tranquility that we all possibly secretly yearn for, well for a few brief hours anyway, until it starts over and the decibels of a new day returns.

Maybe that's why I love the desert. It is possible to hear nothing there. Well nothing man made anyway and possibly only a desert wind or the sound of your own breath or heart beat. All I can say is it's a deafening silence and one you should listen to very carefully if you ever get the opportunity.

There's nothing quite like it and nothing better.

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