silence on retainer

we, as a species, 

actually think silence exists.

yet, we don't actually know 

of silence directly.

we know it, 

by the lack there of.

we only are aware 

of the claim of it,

by a framing context of contrast.

sound, we know,

but only in a limited fashion,

as that which is in our audio range.

there are sounds above and below that,

but we are not attuned.

so anything outside of what we sense,

is then perceived as silence.

we really have no clue as to silence.

for us, it's all relative,

as in experience-endowed.

our concept of silence 

is somewhat sensory based.

but if sound was a transitional phase 

of matter versus non-matter, 

what would sound actually be?

we, as species, are wildly displaced

from that sense of existence.

we are assumptions buried deep, 

away from the functioning of sound,

unless it is experientially hearable to us.

we crave silence, 

sort of.

which is to say,

we are contextually bound to sound

or the lack of it.

thus we claim that in immediacy,

as silence from our experiential point of view.

so craving silence,

could come to mean what?

possibly realms outside our experiential range?

a sense of being,

not accounted for 

or in denial there of?

how to question silence,

as if to obtain relevant audio-answers . . .