- Akosua Biraa
Silence

peace
is your fragrance
found unbound in silence
as you are—
bask in this,
you unchanging inside all changefulness
no need to believe
when you know this resting
place w/in your own
“happy your sef!”
awareness
never came
can’t go
just is, so
marinate your mind in it
even as being pushed by all noise
is none-sense world making
suffering
past & future
terrors
steal your present
stillness
vast & empty are you
listening, then,
keep paying attention here
where test-you moments do you
over & over & over & over again
in your mind is a good servant
but a bad mistress and worse as your master
witness beyond its coaxing you to sleep — don’t
bask in this,
as you are—
found unbound in silence
is your fragrance
peace