Have you learned to appreciate silence?
The kind of silence in which only the cicadas seem to be alive?
When the slow drip from a tap is deafening?
And when the loudest thing happening to you is the heaving of your chest?
Have you learned to appreciate such silence?
Have you learned to appreciate silence?
The kind of silence in which an infant’s breathing is like a smooth jazz ensemble?
When a creak on the wooden floorboards is a riot?
And when a snowflake shudders like an earthquake on your nose?
Have you learned to appreciate such silence?
Have you learned to appreciate silence?
The kind of silence in which your thoughts holler?
Where the old hiding places of your embarrassments, your guilts, your rejections, your betrayals scream from the shock of sudden exposure?
And when the whispers of long forgotten, exiled dreams are achingly heard?
Have you learned to appreciate such silence?
I long for such silence
Such respite from the cacophonous world of persistent prattle and hurried motion
I long for its yawning invitation
Into other worlds where footsteps are light and shadows long
And shapes and colours and sounds are all something else
I long for that silence
That draws my spirit into infinity and eternity
While my body stays rooted to this earth
Yes I long for the silence of meditation
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