Listening To Silence

Listening To Silence

                                              
 

The noise of silence can be deafening!

All that chatter arising from within

We choose to stifle

As so much "din".

 

Do we drown ourselves

In mountainous

Waterfalls…

So as not to hear the Voice within?

 

The silence of listening will bring us…

Descent

into the heart that needs to be rent

Of clutter,

Debris,

Chaos and disorder…

Of self-seeking and fear.

 

Are we afraid of what we worship?

Is there fear in letting go;

Of emptying,

to find the idols

letting them crumble into dust?

 

Love is there, awaiting the Opening!

Will Love find the welcome?

In welcoming, will the Silence

Be born once again?

                               

Jean Mahan, sfo

2-14-2006

 

(Reprinted with permission)