By Jai Hill.
Silence walked through the valley of my life one day
And as I fell into quietude to witness a new play
Of life that is, my mental chatter
Began to scatter,
And in silence I looked and I really saw
The cold, desperate eyes of the homeless poor,
The resigned suffering of the refugees
Who didnt know where they belonged or what they believed,
And I saw the pain in the souls of a multitude of elderly folk
Who had almost forgotten how to joke,
As the world they knew fell from view
And the harsh crime and bitterness of the 21st century
Soon ensued;
So as I walked with silence in my heart
I saw suffering right from the start
And pledged to ease their pain
With no thought of my gain.
This is what the silence taught me
Om namah shivay
Jai Hill
Last updated: 2006/02/07