Lower your voice please!
I want to hear what silence is saying
Perhaps it is saying: come!
And I want to follow it
This poem reflects on the pleasure and delight that silence can offer with such a profound serenity that no matter how beautiful, a sound cannot attain. In the beginning sentence by urging others to "lower your voice" and by implying in the last sentence that the poet "want[s] to follow [the silence]", the desire for silence is evident. Indeed for me, there are times I truly enjoy the silence and feel gratitude to be reminded once again that such placidness exists in our everyday busy life; especially when its the transition from fall to winter, and a rain had just stopped quickly enough for the wind to carry cold zephyrs with a scent of soggy leaves but not for the stepping grass to be completely soaked up - I feel silence with all my five senses and it is truly beautiful.
However, I would rather choose a world full of sound than a world full of silence. For me, sound has been my inspiration, motivation, and an integral part of myself. Ever since coming across "Across the Stars" by John Willimas in the Star Wars OST track, I realized that sound was able to not be a momentary experience, but one that lasts within the soul, imprinting its inerasable mark. From the beginning, the violins are playing faster and faster, demonstrating greed and the fear of loss that follows, then its transition to anger. Finally at the climax when all of the orchestral instruments are bursting together, hate is portrayed. But soon, the music declines and the song is quieter, as if to have reached peace, but more closely, it is the tears of suffering and regret of Darth Vader which leaves the lasting streaks of hope for the small good still left.
Sound can communicate feelings, stories, and messages - a truly beautiful gift we have been given to enrich our souls.
sources: https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/24116/Five-Poems-by-Wadi-Saadeh