SILENCE WILL SPEAK

FROM THE PEN OF HAKALIMA DANNY

 

DEDICATED TO ALL YOUNGICEE WRITERS,

YOUR WORKS SHALL FOREVER SPEAK IN SILENCE

 

We could have talked

had we more words to say

we could have spoken

had our first words not fallen

on deaf ears

 

Comfortably they sit in their

swivel chairs

looking at us with expectant eyes

expecting us to say more

but we shall not speak

for all that ever needed to be said

has been spoken

and so we sit back

and fold our hands

staring back at them

letting silence reign.

 

If they could not hear our

voices

they shall learn to understand

silence

at times

greatest words are spoken in silence

 

We are pilgrims

passerbys on this earth

for we have no abiding city

and when we are gone

when we be no more

our voices

shall forever speak in silence.

 

We are going somewhere

to where no man returns

but leaving you behind a legacy

and this we know for sure

when old age takes us to all eternity

our voices shall forever speak

and even after a thousand generation

our works shall forever shout

BUT IN SILENCE

 

For all eternity

the silent echos of our voices

will be heard

even in far away lands

FOR SILENCE WILL SPEAK.

 

@HAKALIMA DANNY

THE EYES OF POETRY