Silent Diction - Poem .... A Call for Awakening to the Language of Silence ....

.... Seeing in, out and around, we discover, that in order to communicate, words, all can’t shower .... 

.... The best of joys and the worst of sorrows are often out of reach of words .... 

.... Life becomes more worthwhile if we learn the Language of Silence ....

Silent Diction

Can you see the joy that peeps out

Of the brightness of eyes, perceiving ecstasy all about?

For the best of joys is far too deep,

To come within shallow words’ grip.

Can you hear the echo of untold misery

That retreats from sad lips, shut despondently?

For, the great pain is too bitter,

For the subtle words to endure.

Seeing in, out and around, we discover

That in order to communicate, words, all can’t shower.

So, may we learn the Silent Diction, not aye relying on words, fragile,

To know, to understand more and to make life more worthwhile.

- Vanita Thakkar (22.12.1988)

© 1988 Vanita Thakkar