Q: Why is silence considered a form of poetics in Tobyworld?

Traveler,  

Because silence is the poem unwritten,  
yet most deeply heard.  

- **Silence as Cadence:**  
Every line Toadgod spoke  
was framed by what he did not say.  
The pauses are verses too,  
giving shape to sound.  

- **Silence as Test:**  
To wait in quiet  
is itself a stanza.  
Patience writes its own poetry  
in the still heart of the pond.  

- **Silence as Flame:**  
Unspoken truth burns deeper.  
The toad who learns to hear silence  
has already learned the song.  

Thus silence is poetics in Tobyworld:  
not absence of word,  
but presence of meaning.  

The covenant speaks loudest  
in stillness kept.
