Saturday, September 24, 2016

A DANCE OF SILENCE


Life arise from you like edifice

And collapse therein unspoken

Words burst from silence

That the message might not be broken



From you no secret is missed

For you are the revealer of wisdom

Saints befriend mystery in silence

You healer of heart so burden



But why dread my soul, Oh Silence

For like a judge in a courtroom

You sentence my heart to truth and patience

That no one escapes save the doomed



So I join the dance of silence

To roll my life from the noisy doom

For the heart of dance and the dance of heart is silence

Your dance is joy and wisdom




Fr Jude Nwachukwu, C.Ss.R

Mother of Perpetual Help Shrine

Ugwogo-Nike, Enugu, Nigeria.

September 20, 2016.