Silence heals
Silence heals.
:- Doug.
Silence heals.
:- Doug.
God! Everywhere I look!
There you move!
So you must be moving
When someone opposes me
—Is it I? Is it she? We?
:- Doug.
In meeting rooms we take
A chair with one open between
Do other cultures, too,
Avoid crowding another
Or are there some who
Value gathering close?
Trees stand together
Unless we plant them otherwise
:- Doug.
Sometimes it profits us
To listen
For what is not
:- Doug.
Traffic outside!
Toddlers scattering things!
God’s movements are noisy
Getting in the way of what we’d rather
Shh, listen to life’s rathers
:- Doug.
Sit a spell near me
See what I have not seen
:- Doug.
Continually I spiral about you
Frustrated by my attempts to grasp you
Until I see:
“You” and nouns are
Powerless to contain you
:- Doug.