Inner Whisperings

Weighed down by
The weight of books
My walls speak
To me of all
Knowledge of man;
Laboriously
Gleaning through
The vast empires
Of his mind,
I find avenues of
Grandest imaginings;
My soul has lived,
I know, in these
Ages past
In multitudinous
Moulds till, at last,
I am in the
Present foaled –
A man of
Questioning kind,
I debate with
Inner whisperings.

Ronnie Patel, "My Walls Speak to Me," 2001