
.
Ambient silence after the cremation of a corpse…
A terrible silence.
On every wood, knoll, and cottage
Even on people in the end
Settles a pall of silence.
When you look at it
You goose-bump
Recalling a pacific-looking sea.
You can’t bear such unnerving silence…
A silence where your heart beat is so audible to you!
You shoot a question
Then again,
There is silence in answer…
.
But….
There
The door panel hollowed by the tearing bullet
A plant sheared of a length of its bark…
A damp undried strain of blood on the road…
None of them may be intelligible to you, but
The sound on the lips silenced by
The din of the striped devil hovering overhead—
And the streak of sanguine in the staring eyes
Must have surely answered you.
Silence is the grief
That rolls through the eyes piercing the heart.
A silence …so inhuman.
The wounds on the branches inflicted by the metallic boots
Hurt you deeply at heart.
It’s abominable to bear the bestiality
That sucks the human blood like a blotting paper!
Stillness… is still the answer.
.
Yet….
The shouts of “Fire, Fire”
Still echo in the air across the sky
And the half-erased haphazard fleeing foot prints stay.
All these may be unintelligible to you, but
The silent fist of the Gond raised
After feeling the wet, bloodied bandage
Must have surely answered you
.
The silent currents of the sea
Are readying for a war.
It is the ominous silence of the sea
Before the waves surge into tides
The silence
Between the hand raised to beat the tom-tom
And the beat
Is
But a fraction of a second
.
Vimala
.
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