In Texas there's so much space words have a way
Of getting lost in the silence before they're spoken
So people hang on a long time to what they have to say;
And when they say it the silence is not broken,
But it absorbs the words and slowly gives them
Over to miles of white-gold plains and gray-green hills,
And they are part of that silence that outlives them.
excerpted from "In Texas" by May Sarton
3 comments:
I want to say AWESOME, but it may break the silence. :-). Then I realized that silence can't be broken. It is the vacant space between. Between the dog barks, between the bird chirps. Between the electrons, it is there, we just have to relax into it.
Thanks! But I'd say it's the "fullest space" as opposed to "vacant space" -- what appears empty is actually laden with possibility and the Divine.
But you are right -- we do need to relax into it...
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