Endings

Endings by Derek Walcott
Endings
Things do not explode, they fail, they fade, as sunlight fades from the flesh, as the foam drains quick in the sand, even love’s lightning flash has no thunderous end, it dies with the sound of flowers fading like the flesh from sweating pumice stone, everything shapes this till we are left with the silence that surrounds Beethoven’s head.

Comments

cloudhand said…
... and what a resounding silence that is!... Nada is an interesting word: in Spanish it means 'nothing at all'; in Sanskrit it means 'the primordial sound beyond all sounding'.
Rethabile said…
We learn every day: 'the primordial sound beyond all sounding!