The Silence Beyond Eden
An empty sky
holds the full moon—
a loaf of silver
beyond the reach
of the hungry.
Below,
restless minds
drink from a darker sea,
where every wave
promises forgetting.
At the threshold,
a mother keeps a lamp awake.
A father counts the hours,
listening for footsteps
the night refuses to return.
Day after day,
the body becomes
a silent battlefield—
disease entering softly,
laying its patient road
toward an unnamed dawn.
Beyond the shadows,
the merchants arrive
with their glittering bottles,
casting wider nets
across empty pockets,
broken dreams,
and minds already
heavy with winter.
The mothers
hide their tears
behind closed doors.
The fathers
wait for a mercy
that has forgotten their address.
And somewhere
inside the sleepless dark,
a wounded voice rises—
thin as a dying star—
then disappears
before the world
can hear it.
By Goutam Roy
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