The Wonder of Silence

Being Up In Arms

 

There is a silence that beckons 

and in some way we know it is our destiny

We have an urge to run 

both towards it 

And away from it,

 

Be still.

Running in either directions is a step away

Resisting the urge to run is

Yet another step away 

 

Listen to that silence right now!

Keep listening!

 

Is it asking anything of you?

Does it need you to be anyway at all?

 

Like a young infant

Whose mother asks nothing of it

It is OK for you to be angry or sad

or confused.

 

Silence will only be able to love you!

 

And you 

my wildly free infant,

cannot leave her arms.