There's a Silence in the City
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July 15, 2003 was the last day that "Back Talk with the Strelz" aired on KROD AM600 in El Paso, Texas. On July 16th, after listening to what was on the radio, Richard Campbell penned the following.
| There's A Silence in the City |
| A silence filled the city on seven sixteen. |
| Not, of course, in home and office. |
| Not in factory and lab. |
| Not in school and hospital. |
| Not on street and freeway. |
| Not in park and swimming pool. |
| Not on competing radio, its one-way babble, void, Neanderthal depth, twisting truth |
| through narrow minds so vocal in distant DC and closer Austin. |
| No, it was a silence in hearts of thousands. |
| It was a silence in soul and spirit. |
| After six years and more, so different from the day before. |
| No booming voice moving through microphone on miles of radio signals. |
| No hearty laugh. |
| No indignant comment. |
| No probing questions to persons and issues. |
| No information on what and whom and where and how. |
| No calls from common folk and those in high places of power. |
| No nuggets on news and politics, music and travel, business and government. |
| No challenge to status quo and rush to rear. |
| No voice of people and to people beyond the voices of yesterday. |
| A great silence. Loud. Pervasive. Heavy. |
| But behind the silence a very quiet sound, |
| a voice of hope, of a future day, |
| to hear again the voice, the laugh, the comments, the info, |
| the calls, the nuggets, the people's voice to and from. |
| Another day. Another venue. Another time for light again. |
| The end of silence. . |
| Maybe even the hand of God |
| © 2003 Richard Campbell - used with permission |