The world has always

 The world has always

Been this way

Heartbreakingly beautiful 

Mind-numbingly hideous 

Achingly magical

Painfully tumultuous 

Blissfully aligned

Starkly disjointed 

Alive with laughter

Awash with tears

Overflowing with abundance

Devastated by drought 

Amazing

Revolting

All at once

The pendulum swings

In a blinding flurry

So that it seems never

To move at all

So that it seems that 

Polar opposites are 

One and the same

But that's just an illusion 

Between the extremes

Of hope and despair 

The world as we know it

Spins

With indivisible speed

Which is why you need to slow down

So that you can breathe in peace

Through that infinitesimal gap

Between one end of the pendulum swing

And the other.

It's called the Power of Silence.

@actorvijay