At Home In the Silence

It's as simple as this...

dawn is your wake-up call

the stars are the lamp beside your bed

shake your bones regularly against the earth

to ensure the life still flows through them

properly


you should melt more --

water yourself a tree or an ocean

or a parched stranger


maybe you'll become a saint

or be a bastion of sweet laughter

for a frowning world


and no words in any combination

can match a well-timed smile.


Learn to be silent

and traverse that inner cave

spelunking across the great granite

crevasses of your soul


because not even a Senegal,

with its drum troops

and thunderous rattlings of

griots with koras


can equal the goliath reverberation

of the one that makes their home

in the silence.