Silence Not Just Opposite of Voice

Silence not just opposite of voice More of ear turning deaf to outside noise Close ears to outside din And hear subtle murmur within Listen Heart beats in rhythm and rhyme No music composer can beat the music divine Listening same beats for sometime Makes one slip in meditation anytime One drops BODY then MIND falls Weightless, thoughtless Light one feels Slip one may in trance Levitation one may experience Eternal Bliss engulfing As if in Heaven surfing Longevity of blissful state, on practice depends Veteran or amateur, sooner or later it ends Silence ruptures, clamour overtakes whisper Bliss vanishes, pang emerges One day sound fails to impact hearing sense That is when one is laid into permanent Silence Silence of graveyard not just opposite of cry in maternity ward More of listening to death than speaking of life as trump card Silence not just opposite of voice More of dropping body dead, aligning life suiting soul's choice --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- © Hitendra Mehta For Poetry Soup Contest April 2011