silence into laughter

there's reason for our silence at your boast

of honours gained but we would never mock

the complex manner in which you take stock

of those who might give unto you the most

value for effort there's certainly no ghost

of a chance that our sharpest words would  rock

your placid mind nor ever serve to shock

your foolish heart that is why you are toast

our hopes are otherwise for you to learn

new meanings in the light and make it plain

that you have understood the open word

of those who do far more than simply yearn

for what has been who go far past their pain

into the laughing world of the absurd