On Seeing a Photograph-2

On seeing a photograph “Our task is to listen to the news that is always arriving out of silence” - Rainer Maria Rilke - A rare prologue gone awry Drafted as it was in the midst of A terrible denouement Plain and bare for once, shorn of frills Exposed to all the evil And in a fluster Here it was left incarcerated Within the burden of unkind words Craving care Words that just couldn’t tell That wouldn’t at all hear Nor be fair Moments before getting erased By the most blasted hand that ever Pulled a trigger Into Silence. And here I stand listening to the news That’s always arriving out of Silence.. S.Jagathsimhan Nair 8 May 13 • On seeing the photograph of Balachandran, son of Tiger Prabhakaran, moments before the 12 year old was killed. For Kim Morrison's