The poem is built as a riddle. The speaker addresses someone "you" and describes their birth, and only in the final lines reveals the answer: "You are silence." Every image before that points toward stillness. The seas go quiet, the night sings lullabies, lions and beasts sleep, and even sun and rain stop their conflict to dance slowly together. Silence, the poem suggests, arrives when the world's restlessness gives way.
The family detail is the most interesting part. Madness is silence's father, but it looks like patience and takes after its mother. That suggests silence can come out of turmoil, yet it inherits the gentler side. The speaker sounds tender and a little playful, like someone telling a child where they come from, then inviting the reader to guess. The mood is hushed, soothing, and almost reverent, as if silence were something to be welcomed rather than feared.