The Anonymous healer...
Serenity framed!
Cobbled pathway, ochre, mustard, yellow Grey whispers, complementing the happy hues... For whom he strums, the solitary singer?! Clocks dismantle themselves, for music is time Life flows in a rhythm, for those who listen... Cacophonies dissolve, harmony blooms When the music flows as honeyed streams For all the brine our eyes hold Soothing, healing, planting hope and love...
He sings to silence, and to the invisible breeze
Have we ever asked silence, how it feels
Aren't we always the takers, never giving music To silence that often heals us?!
The breeze! I see Her arms folded, leaning over the wall Gently perfuming the space with jasmine, sandal, petrichor As She sways and swirls to the song...
He might leave the place, but I can still hear him Hear his voice, in the hues of art
From countless canvas
Translating the inexplicable into the language of colors Into lyrics of love...
I want to meet that soul at the street corner Sipping coffee, gazing at the singer
Wiping away his tears, making sure nobody saw him
If only he walks across, and meet the strings closer
Find a friend in the singer Mutually be shoulders to lean on...
For whom he waits, to play that special song
That one song he sang with a disarming smile
I heard long ago, as I went past him on a rainy evening
He doesn't know, my tears are part of that song now
I do not want to ask him to sing for me I shall wait until his heart is ready To unfriend silence, and joyfully sing...
'Being alone, and 'feeling lonely' is not the same
That is what I hear from his guitar To whom he vents each day... Solitude, peace, is what we may see around him
But only he can tell, what is inside him... "His days are made of songs Making inaudible, the sobbing aches", said a voice
I woke up startled, searching for the voice It could be the artist, it could be the art Speaking the truth, many refuse to believe...
A bilingual poet-writer(Tamil, English), Madhumathi is an ardent lover of Nature, Poetry, Photography and Music. Her poems are published in Anthologies of The Poetry Society(India), AIFEST 2020 Poetry contest Anthology, CPC- Chennai Poetry Circle, IPC – India Poetry Circle, Amaravati Poetic Prism, and in e-zines UGC approved Muse India, Storizen, OPA – Our Poetry Archives, IWJ International Writers Journal, Positive Vibes, and Science Shore.
‘’Ignite Poetry'’, “Arising from the dust”, “Painting Dreams", “Shards of the unsung Poesies" are some of the recent Anthologies her poems, and write ups are part of.
Besides Poetry, Madhumathi writes on Mental health, to create awareness and break the stigma, strongly believing in the therapeutic and transformational power of words.
Contact: madhumathi.poetry@gmail.com