We share silence together

Every morning

Every evening

In-between bites of food

In-between stories about our lives

We share silence

Like the trees in a forest share silence

Like the earth shares silence with the sky

Like how when our two hands

Touch each other

Palm to palm

There is connection

There is coming together

The silence that they are

Shared

In a single gesture

And we take it now to symbolize peace

One hand coming to know the other

Touching, holding, pressing

As if they need to rediscover, once more

That they are the same body.