Embraceable
They say one cannot embrace pure silence,
But can they feel the silence embracing them?
Our minds in pausing and transitions,
Could it be…that
Within our souls is an air pocket or two?
Is there a space that should be filled?—can be filled?
The composer was aware by the traffic
That music is merely sounds
And he accepts those sounds and loves them!
Many have said if this was so,
How meaningless music would be!
But there is a certain truth to his words
That one can find buried inside
Nothing is quiet
Everything is so loud
Silence is naught but fought
And mechanical resonances bring peace to the heart
Like sounds to music
Is like words to poetry
There is possibly no rhythm to it at all
But there is a mental tempo as hard as iron in this shackled mind
Poems are all but words
I accept what they are
Simple, wonderful words
And they are embraceable
Even in our view of silence
-inspired by the composer John Cage on the “experience of silence and sound”-
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