FLUENCY IN SILENCE
-
Nandini
Sahu (India)
You
dictate me the poetic lines in absentia
I am
just the amanuensis to write your poems.
You
call me ‘word-wizard’, but you are the art of wizardry.
The
moon may teach you, it’s fine to go through phases.
And
the sun says, no matter how many times
you go
downcast, keep rising in the sundry.
One
has to consider the kind of silence one follows.
If you
don’t understand my silence, how do you claim
to
understand my words who are free birds that fly?
Silence
is to the spirit what sleep is to the body.
Silence
is healing. Right tongue comes out of silence
and
right silence comes out of speech, you know why?
Silence
is an ocean, speech is a river.
Meaningful
silence is juxtaposed with hollow words.
Silence
is the language to encounter divine.
Love,
my silence is better than proving a point at this point.
The
quieter I become, the better you can hear.
My
fluency in silence can sort out our subsists.
In any
case, you must win, I prefer to lose.
If you
win, you are the conqueror; if you lose, you still are the captor.
In any
case, my love, you win, silence wins.
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