The king sent a proposal across
His kingdom to create silence.
Declaring, the silentest of silence
Shall be rewarded.
Someone emptied colors off
A rose and brought it to the king.
And another brought the heart
Of a friend who was betrayed.
The blood-soaked soil off a battlefield
Seemed enough at one point.
Till someone offered the thirst of a
Sailor amidst the sea of water.
Someone split particle of a dust
To show there's more to it,
Which was contested by dried-out tears
Of a mother whose son had died.
A Chinese monk came off with his
Meditative mind and when the judges
Entered inside, his disciples
Scraped noise off other silences-
To offer more assertive silence,
That imploded everyone's thoughts
Into emptiness. And that won
The final prize.
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