The Grammar of Silence
Among the cracks in rooms inhabited by time
the grammar of silence rises slowly,
every silence is a conjugation that says nothing,
the dust notes the lexicon of waiting.
The cracks widen the vocabulary of glances
and the furniture, witnesses, note pauses
when the noise remains mute, the house breathes
grows the grammar of silence among the walls
Explanation
This poem is configured not so much as a descriptive text as as a complex meditation on the nature of emptiness and the structuring of the unspoken. The title itself, “The Grammar of Silence,” immediately establishes the metaphorical core: silence is elevated from a state of mere absence to that of an autonomous linguistic system, equipped with rules, syntax, and communicative potential.
The text operates on a powerful poetic paradox, treating absence (silence) as an active and organized presence. The poet rejects the conception of emptiness as nothing; on the contrary, he charges it with structural meaning, comparing it to a “conjugation that says nothing.” This linguistic hyperbole suggests that the true language of existence resides in pauses, intervals, in the implicit syntax between sonic or visual events.
The domestic environment – the rooms, the po