Stillness

You are alone when you’re with animals,

With birds, in the grove or near a river.

Only when you are with men, even one,

You aren’t alone and feel the pressure.

The silence you find when you are alone

Is not the silence that follows a storm,

Not the silence that falls in dawns or dusk

And not the one seen in the church or museum.

When you find yourself alone and aloof

Along the meadow , where the sheep would browse

Or along the brook, where sparrows would shoot.

Or on a rock by which would flow a brook

You will find such silence and will stand still

And that stillness will cleanse your soul and nerves.

It is good to be alone now and then.

In a solitude of tranquility.

21.07.2015