Silence

Art picture, Silence and Space by Bernard Walz.

Sometimes it’s healing. Sometimes

 it hurts_

I take this,

 and I preach it to the birds

They sing, I tweet

in the jingle jangle lyrics of my

sacred preacher, holding

resisting the noise, yet

embraced by it,

 in my moments of confusion

Decision time, never comes, always

breeding on my silence

developed consistently in experimental jars

simmering all my sweet and bitter uncertainties.

Silence, chosen on my phone

Restricting how-do-you-do’s,

breaking news, please-and-thank-you’s,

see-you-tomorrow’s, and

take-care’s – of what?

Please repeat!

 

(Days of covid-19 curfews in Athens, May 2020)