All the Silence and the Starlight

Now and forever

Like a hidden flower of light,
the silent whisper of a universal soul
brings meaning,
writing a poetry of silence into every moment,
and when thought dissolves
in dreamy trance,
or we gaze sometimes across the midnight sky,
we know we’re part of something
larger than ourselves,
something no words can ever say
but every heart somehow knows,
an intelligence that brings beauty to flowers
and the honk of geese to winter skies,
an endless song of silence
joining every leaf and every human heart,
the eternal becoming human
for the brief duration of a life.

We’re here just a short while in this world
and in every fleeting moment
a poetry of light is gardening our heart,
unfolding silent harmonies
all across our endless inward sky
with sentience, intelligence and meaning,
a compass to steer our life
helping us see more clearly,
like we have new eyes to know
life is larger than it seems,
more beautiful than we can say in words,
while every moment fades to memory
like shadows fading into mist
that lingers on an endless ocean.

The conscious silence
brings something of its gentle grace
to our reflective inner moments,
revealing all the wisdom underneath
the surface of the everyday,
the knowing that can’t be said,
the unwritten poetry blended through
the conscious fabric of our world,
the poetry of insight
writing itself into the moment,
the gentle intelligence of the universe
breathing into our life,
its silence whispering
always
in our heart.

Paul Mulliner 2024

Source: https://medium.com/the-howling-owl/all-the-silence-and-the-starlight-37298e9d46f4

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