I am silence

Was an idea to write a series of poems where the poems are something or someone and desribe what or who they are and then identifying themselves at the end of the poem, hence I am silence.

I am the moment just before sleep.
The split second before a car wreck
When everything moves slowly
And senses are magnified
A doctor taking a newborn to the NICU
Just after the exhausted mother has stopped
and the chord is cut.
When terrible news is given over the phone
I am time that it takes the news to travel
From ear to mind to emotions

I am silence.