Silence

                           A day of silence

                     can be a pilgrimage in itself.

                           A day of silence

                          can help you listen 

                            to the soul play

                     It's marvelous lute and drum.

                          Is not most talking 

                  A crazed defence of a crumbling fort?

                          I thought we came here

                          To surrender to silence,

                     To yield to Light and Happiness,

                          To dance within

                  In celebration of Love's Victory!

                                         Hafiz