Silence Is A Form Of Vindication Poem by RIC BASTASA

silence is a form of vindication

to the harsh questions in life
do not give it the dignity of a mind
stay silent
mum

to a recent calamity where dead people
teem a once busy street
silence is a blanket
cover them all
stay
calm do not weep
weeping is letting it know that the calamity has won
over you
stay
solid like a pavement

a widow may waddle in a sea of depression &
sing the same song over and over again
asking God that the burden be taken

when you see her
all her hair turn gray
her eyes sunken
her cheeks hollow like a nut without meat
her looks hazy like a foggy road at night in the mountain

do not say any word
stay unaffected
hold her hand and make her feel that you are secure
still
in the chosen space of your
inner silence

silence is your private space
where you are lone ruler of it all.