|| Hanneke ||

An European woman

with an Indian heart 

and soul-Hanneke

With open eyes

she hears and sees

all in silence

like a still river

In her eyes

all see their reflection

amidst movement

she sits unmoving

Seeing everything her

ears hear-everything

the way her eyes

watch-day and night

Often she thinks

eyes are helpless-

they see whether they want or not

ears have no option

but to hear

what if the lips

too spoke the words

of the soul-incessantly

then the world would 

have been different

and so would have been man

The world would not

have been so frightening

then and men would 

not have been insecure

Power and fear

would not have 

turned into guns

Freedom would not

be known as terror

Locks and patrol

would not have been

synonyms of security

Man and woman

would have procreated

generations of faith

In her silence Hanneke

speaks volumes

engaged in dialogue

her liquid eyes unveil 

answers to questions unasked

Hanneke creates novel

modes of dialogue

gives new meanings

to words