hush

||we, the city mice

have our own nice 

and not so nice ways 

of communicating.

we smile, nod, stare, 

widen eyes, gape, gawk,

grin, smirk, sigh, yelp, yell.

show hands, fingers - 

one for every gesture.

shrug shoulders, drag feet,

droop the face, pull our hair

whenever it is or not necessary.||

||and then there are those - 

the dwellers in the woods.

they say too little and listen more.

they share their thoughts, unhindered -

without judging or being judged.

their conversations are all inclusive-

from the burbling of the stream,

birds chirrups, breeze's hisses.

the over powering thunder,

the fragile snap of twigs and falling leaves.

there, they converse without speaking.

there, they share the profound silence. 

-amit charles 

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