We Have Missed This Poem by Raj Arumugam

This is what we have missed, ignored:
the quiet and silence;
the embrace that light, time, the earth
and the water and the sky offer

We have allowed the mind to agitate;
we have been victims to its fury
The anger and the palpitations within
have flowed into every vein of the being

This is what we have not met with silence;
we have not come to this free, with no will

This quiet and these gentle arms and seeing -
to these we have not yielded before