A problem ..

O! Krishna! 

I have a problem with people 

Who say that silence is better than the word. 

If somebody says that 

I hear animals, plants and stones and stellar dust 

Having a hearty laugh at them. 

Silence is silence, that too 

If thinking is running through it all. 

Unthinking, mute and clipped-mind frozen - 

I don't see anything great in that. 

Just a regression sad, self-chosen. 

Consciousness made word is the first incarnation; 

Unincarnated transcendence, what is it to whom? 

Even transcendence presumes 

Something available and tangible to transcend. 

But you may say: word fails the thought. 

To succeed is the chase 

And failing is happy when the chase is not closed. 

And the great secret is : 

All transcendence, super-natural and cosmic beyond - 

All things are just habitations of meanings 

Structured in the word, of the word and by the word. 

So give me a word! 

Srirangam Mohanarangan 

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