Silence Reaching (2013)
in the modern era
silence exists
a decision
a punishment
noisy with appeals
recognizes the imperative
goes on speaking anyway
an intention
an expectation
perforated by sound
enriching emptiness
a resonating eloquent silence
je pe deges parmi le solitude*
horizon
discovery
and formulation
never has less advanced itself as
more
soliciting total attention
strenuous modesty
actual debility
cleansed non-interfering vision
certifying the absence
long silences become almost palpable
spiritual nausea
harsh despair
perverse apocalypse
deployed with systematic irony
blood-tide of decadence
the approaching end
post political electronically connected cosmopolis checked by despair
leaves one without
any
breath
at
all
(*translation – I’m a lonely one)
I actually recorded this one. I always think poetry needs to be spoken/read out loud. Enjoy.