he sat in a pondering moment

coming around to wondering

if the hint couldn't be any clearer

about how it'd be best to stay quiet

perhaps he's reading too much into it

considering his intimate connection

with silence always nagging for words

to dissipate the growing relentlessness

but these ponders are very much like 

a moment of reckoning wanting

its recognition as the fittest clue

that it's well time to trust inklings

the hint is flailing itself for attention:

it's really time he stayed quiet now