I Hear Your Voice

I hear your voice, despite absence and distance;

Amongst clear skies, cloudy days, dark nights.
I wake up from fogged dreams:
And even then it seems
As if you are standing there.

I have a secret known to none.
I can listen to silence and the silence
Speaks in a languages only I know.
I can hear it's words distinctly;
Decipher what it is saying to me now.

Often in the silence, I can hear your voice
Clearly, as when you walked by my side:
Ah, how lonely is the yearning heart
How fatigued the soul when it is tired.
(Copyright: Rani Turton)