The Power Of Silence Poem by Alexandrian Ink

"Ab initio temporem, " when time began
The world "in toto" was in void laid
Neither molecule nor matter not man
Nor any creature was then made.

The world, somberly dwelt in darkness,
And the spirit of God roved everywhere
Eternal Father was alone, as if in loneliness
For neither Angels nor Saints where then there

He was alone, but with one companion, a friend
Who in itself is embroidered with wit and wisdom,
Silence was there in absolute loyalty to attend;
Upon every hour and desire he's there with Him.

Eternal Father moved in silence and in silence,
Silence showed him the mystery of creation;
From thence, day in day out, in His presence,
Silence was, is, will still be, the only companion.

When God took flesh and God became man,
Thirty three years on earth, thirty years unknown;
In silence and solitude he did all that he can
Still, not undisclosed to the people of His town.

To brace Himself for His ministerial work
He went to meet his eternal friend;
Forty days with him of day light and night dark,
In that wilderness, from silence he fed.

He fed the five thousand, says Matthew,
Having dismissed all, he went to a lonely place
Coming forth, to his apostles he was different and new;
For he was walking on top of the water surface.

Oh silence, what mystery is within you, solitude?
That God so cherished nothing else but you and none?
But we, blind perishing mortals, confused multitude
Dread you and with great spit wished never to be alone.

Ali Alexon
Feb.23


Ab initio = from the beginning
Tempus-oris = time
In toto = in total, entirely, whole.