Silence Unexplained

Silence Unexplained

A Poem by Anand Sehgal

As you keep on embedding long pauses 
between your words,
Sometimes I feel you have very little left with you
to speak out.
The moment I start thinking that I would
offer you  solitude as a gift to cherish ,
I hear my name being called silently.

Once again I turn back,
only to listen to you.

I've tried a lot , but I could never snatch away
from you ,
this tiny yet so tight stake you had on me.

Whenever I had thought of cutting this very last string ,
Enthralling reverberations of rumbling 
sound prevailed in my mind.
Dreams of placenta have disturbed my sleep many a time.

Every-time  I keep expecting 
that, this time indeed, you would break your silence;
you would share with me the experiences,
the truth you learned during self-desolation.

waiting endlessly, the Time loses "melanin",
grows old with grey hair.
We remain the same,
the prehistoric smiling faces,
unfazed, unchanged , unexplored;
just you and me.

© 2014 Anand Sehgal


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Ok. Since you sent this again, I will review it once more.
Sometimes, time will make one's perception of a particular piece evolve - where once I reviewed this from the stance of a bystander, I am now living it.
We all have to go through it, I guess. People come and go. Perhaps, these are moments that jar us from our sense of complacency to find lessons each relationship - as each begins and ends.
At the end of the day, we only have ourselves to face and figure out if we have become who we were destined to be or not… and the silence will be unexplained no more.

Posted 10 Years Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

Anand Sehgal

10 Years Ago

Thanks dear. I am honored to get two different takes from you on this write. I am honored that you s.. read more



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wow this grabbed me...it is like knowing a person forever and then realizing...wow, i don't know you at all...you never let enough of yourself go...you won't open, you never have...an unopened book on a shelf for years.

jacob

Posted 10 Years Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

Anand Sehgal

10 Years Ago

Thanks Jacob for liking the piece , yes I dusted some old shelves :D
I don't know; is this a departure in style for you. I mean are you trying something new in form. Either way. I like it. This poem is almost prose-like and obtains a fantastic level of expressionism. And still all the symbolism and metaphor I have come to expect from your writing. I found myself saying 'yeah' and nodding my head throughout. Deep, unaffected(not that you are ever affected) write. Loved it.

Posted 10 Years Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

Pryde Foltz

10 Years Ago

You do it masterfully.
Anand Sehgal

10 Years Ago

you are so kind :)
Pryde Foltz

10 Years Ago

Kind? Maybe. But you are in touch with the muses. No doubt about that.

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Added on August 23, 2013
Last Updated on December 7, 2014
Tags: Relationship, Conflict, Character, Prose Poem

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Anand Sehgal
Anand Sehgal

Kolkata, India



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