Book number 25, Silence heart

Current bid for this book stands at £10

Book number 25, (yay! half way through) is a heart-shaped book held together with a split pin. It has the poem Silence written on individual pages which appropriately open out into a lovely fan.

 This is the book closed

 and this is what it looks like open.

It measures approximately 8 x 8cm with 17 pages.

The poem is - 

Silence is palpable

at the centre of a heart turned inside out,

knowing its fullness instead of its limits,

its generosity instead of its spite,

its enormity instead of its shrinking.

Silence is a depth-charge

into the ever-present space

that words cannot plumb,

dancing on the outskirts

and knocking at the door,

they cannot express the

vastness and completeness.

Silence is the end of all our longing,

the dropping away of desires and wants,

the dissolving of binary opposites and

the shedding of burdens we have

inadvertently accumulated.

Silence is tangible at the centre

of a heart turned inside out,

embracing infinity instead of being bound

by invisible walls created in our imagining

and forgetfulness that we are bound to one another,

indistinguishable as the wave and the water.

© 28/2/13