The Silence Beyond Eden

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The Silence Beyond Eden  The sky, dust-laden, wears the stains of ash, while restless souls gather pearls of eternity, yet their hunger remains unsatiated. Frontiers bleed, dreams crumble into ruins, and nameless children inherit an unknown Eden's ashes. Once, your footsteps consecrated the earth, your breath sanctified the wandering winds. Now, iron and fire dictate the fate of spring. Who taught the flowers to fear their blossoming? Perhaps the giants still play their ancient game, moving kingdoms across the chessboard of the earth, while pawns of flesh and blood vanish beneath their shadows. And you remain silent, beyond the ruins of paradise. Is your silence the final mystery of creation, or the permission through which the giants reign?

The Dicynodont


 The Dicynodont


It vanished

into the deep silence

two hundred and fifty million years ago—

a four-footed creature,

long-bodied, tusked,

strange to the modern eye:

the Dicynodont.

Yet extinction

is not always the end.

In the rock art

of the San people,

memory outlives bone.

Across the stones

of the Karoo Basin

in South Africa,

ochre animals move—

their dicynodonts

walking between fossil and myth,

as if vanished species

still wander the earth

inside the dreaming

cosmology of the San.

By  Goutam Roy 

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