The Peace That Inner Silence Brings

1/1/08


Momentary touches our hearts surprise
And then the veil is drawn before our eyes.
We catch a thread and believe we have the Word
Each gospel one step higher than the rest
We harbour the emotions of the herd
Feeling ourselves more than all others, blessed.
In moments when we look across the years
As over barren plains from which there rise
Above an unknown landscape’s dim frontiers
The few defining peaks that touch the skies,
We realize that preoccupied with things
We lose the peace that inner silence brings.

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(First published in the journal Gavesana 2009)