Stormy Quiet

A wonderful shot of the ocean at the Maldives island, with the perturbations of a marine population, probably caused by the disturbance of a passing bunch of tourists, peering with their cameras, while the boat spews forth stuff.... my friend Ganesh Balaraman has several more photographs here.


(photograph by Ganesh)
Beneath the calm,
placid,
orderly waters
of the mind
as seen by the others
from a distance,
there lies
closer,
a
traumatic
tumult
of thoughts,
bubbling,
tumbling ,
dashing against
jumping doubts;
some rippling
up to the surface.

A real friend
bends
to ask
and help.

Others stare
far away
at the orderly calm
on the surface,
secretly wondering
at the antecedents
of those causing the tumult;
These are called politicians.