Painting by Sri Mahadeb

Silencing echoes

Sitting in silence
across abandoned airspace
hovering above conversations
laminated over time
onto art decor dining table.

Fingers slide
across haptic screens,
discovering enigmatic lives
justified by affirmative likes,
strangers colliding in cyberspace.

Relationships searching love,
meaningfulness
justified by woke culture
hopelessness
justified by ignorance
ignorance, into fear,
fear, into fatigue,
fatigue into nothingness.

silencing echoes.

Form

Ridge lines
on my fingertips,
contours guide
my spoken word,
I am defined.

gentle breeze contours,
my essence.
ocean waves contours,
my persistence.
rays of sunlight contours,
my countenance.

I am courage

o questioning, “Am I …?”
I am confidence,
no waffling, “Should I …?”
I am future,
no doubting, “Will I …?”

In form, my silhouette,
stands firm,
against shifting sand dunes,
as I pose with the setting sun.
I will rise, surely,
as long as it rises.