To Silence

Dear brave Silence:
Home to industry,
To dignity, self-mastery,
And noble bearing breadth;

Your elegant depth
In consort angels with,
Urmila with,
And with all Ocean’s council;

Counsel to sounds all,
And to we who hear in you a prison,
Yet to learn to listen
To your tenderest song,

And long
For verses longer.

Sumangali Morhall
January 2005