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
Copyright © S.Jagathsimhan Nair | Year Posted 2013
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