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”-