Why The Silence

and if you would consider it a work in progress I would consider the following. start with:

Silence is meaningless
Why do you wish to be silent
even the silent waves
wish to roar

I left out "god gave you a voice" it's a cliche we use with children- god gave you hands, eyes, whatever, so use it. Also, from my point of view, if you believe in "god", then to follow his/her will you would spend most of the the time praising his/her name, filling the divine ego. as commanded.

The next distraction is "they continue to love you/as before". I did not know the seas loved me or why. But I like the idea and would like to know why. You have to tell me why, what love the seas show for me.

lastly the premise of the sun setting in "silence". silence is more a metaphor than actual silence.
The sunset is loud with praise of the light, is it not? If silence is "meaningless", (the opening statement and therefore premise of the poem,) then the silence of the sunset is meaningless. But it's not. It is filled with praise. Here's a poem on praise that might help direct you on the subject of silence.

The Poet Speaks of Praising
by Rainer Maria Rilke

Oh speak, poet, what do you do?
--I praise.
But the monstrosities and the murderous days,
how do you endure them, how do you take them?
--I praise.
But the anonymous, the nameless grays,
how, poet, do you still invoke them?
--I praise.
What right have you, in all displays,
in very mask, to be genuine?
--I praise.
And that the stillness and the turbulent sprays
know you like star and storm?
:--because I praise.

December, 1921
(from Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties, ed. and trans. by John J. L. Mood, Norton, 1975)