Silence Punishes Poem by Anita Shanti Joseph

You are to me
A gentle puddle
The rains have lavished.
I need you like the soil
To grow tall and robust
Don’t you care I speak out.
The verse that I practise
In your absence
Shies away in your presence.
My words fall silent
Dead as the dry twigs
And the bark felled down.
In your silence I refuse to exist
Loneliness mutes my all
A river cries somewhere.
Fully awaiting to catch and flow
To bring flowers to the valley
Your silence bespeaks a hundred things.
The clinking of glasses makes me sad
In a party your absence is ever present
Enough love, your silence kills.
My teardrops fill a new note
Like a rainbow crowns the sky
Your love spreads its wings to my soul.
I need your fire
To rekindle me
Spark a conversation – won’t you love?
To burn my heart again
So I will sing merrily once more
In vibrant tunes and bask in the sunshine.
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