What I will really miss
is
doing nothing
she said.
And suddenly I
had the answer
to
the countless quizzical greetings
and the mind boring curiosity
about
hobbies, pastimes,
ambitions
and day reckonings
and future plans,
the response to
doubts and allegations
and
what-are-you-really-thinking ' s?
Nothing.
Not entirely honest
but more true than false.
Nothing you could understand.
Nothing you would appreciate.
Nothing I want to explain.
Nothing I want to relive.
Nothing I want to plan.
Nothing that is your business.
What we do best
with people closest,
what can make
silence magical.
What can make an hour of aloneness
so content and fulfilling,
what can make thoughts
so calm
and sleep so peaceful.
Doing nothing.
Thinking nothing.
Seeing something.
Saying nothing.
Brooding nothing.
Feeling something.
Meaning everything.
