about music and silence

so much has been said about silence, its many ways
of being and through being.  one truth is 

it is difficult now: to find it in between many things.
the world does not leave, no matter

how one keeps away.  something always calls:
a task, a calendar, a message, an urgency.

the book i promised myself to read continues to wait.
the plane arrives.  the plane leaves again.

the music does not stop.
but do we really want it to?