The Politics of Silence (poem)

In the palace where voices are banned
Where whispers are illegal
And conversations taboo
Silence is a language
Nudges generate vocabularies
Winks are punctuations
Sighs spell grammar.

Choreographed rituals
Sound hoofsteps
Of conspiracies and revolutions
The Kingdom of Intrigue
Is a Republic of Symbols
         --N.Madhavan,2017