Sunday, March 1, 2009

Echoes of Silence


Guns create silence...

A cry unfinished
A tear half shed
A word unspoken
A word unheard
A disappearing laughter
A life muted
A farewell before time.

The violence brings vacuum 
And in it, silence echoes…

Guns create silence
Can we silence the guns?


                                    
                                                               ~Swarna Mehta


3 comments:

Ashish Godse said...

great peom.....loved it..better copywrite it before i steal it :P

Unknown said...

It's beautiful Swarna :) No words for it. It does really express what we feel when such events happen...

Unknown said...

Nicely said.