A Poem for the Missing

A Poem for the Missing

The Great Eternal Silence By Aquinas T. Duffy

1 Missing in the darkness, vanished without a trace, with only the memories and photographs, to fill an empty place. 2 Frequent prayer and fervent cries, is there anyone there? But the only sound was the silent eternal fanfare. 3 For a long time its deafening sound subdued by a path through lost and found. 4 Laughter and sorrow, anguish and grief, all the moments of a life but with no relief. 5 Everything and nothing one within and between all, gentle, loving, pervading, the eternal silence falls.

(The above was written in June 2000, arising out of the disappearance of my cousin , Aengus and the setting up of a Missing Irish People website. Sometimes, we do not hear answers to our prayers, only apparent silence. But within that silence, there is always more to be discovered.)