Silent

amidst all

that is violent

being unfurled

upon our world

like the gears

of oppression

in obsession

being swirled

and whirled

by the fears

of a tyrant

as vibrant hues

of reds and blues

are bleeding 

into violet

and reason seems

to be absent

and Peace disappears

like absinthe

and vivid Dreams

are starkly vacant

and Hope appears

to be vagrant

and the Ones

that we long for

are ever distant

and the scents

that stir our memories

are far less fragrant

and the sense

that spurs us onward

vanishes into the dark

and leaves us 

blundering through

the night wondering

where the Sky went

thundering in regret

over how the Gift

of Time was spent

within this claustrophobic 

and comforting fencing

as these treacherous times

are increasingly tensing

our pretensing

(and pretending)

that once held sway

can give way 

to percepting

in a new Way

where our Hearts

and our Beings

are continually sensing

a perpetual Pulsing

that's Eternally mending

our wounds

that are hissing

for the Ones

we are missing

a subversive Lifeline

that runs inversively

to our expectations

and intentions and inventions

and keeps our connections

alive in Love

(even as we

can't feel it

as we wait

for the usual means

to reveal it - 

an encoded message

or a clandestine call - 

and we forget

in these disorienting days 

that our old

and familiar ways

ultimately create

a distorting haze

that only serves

to conceal it)

enabling the Wisdom

that gives us

Courage to know

Patience to grow

through the pain

and the sorrow

to freely Flow

beneath the frost

of this unbearable 

and despairable holocaust

to all of us

who are wondering

the lonely Ones

who are wandering

but are not lost

that only comes when

we cease our internal

and infernal conversing

we release our expectings

and incessant projectings

we lose our control

we let it all go...

and

we 

are 

Silent.

#DistanceCanDriveUsThroughDespairIntoHope #AbsenceMakesTheHeartGrowFonderAndStrongerInLove #ForAllBelovedsSeparatedByConflictsAndCircumstances #PeaceForAllInIsraelPalestineAndBeyond #KudosToRumiAndTweedy

('Silent' © Zahid Iqbal)