Wednesday, 1 February 2012

SILENT SONG

Loneliness is timeless
Emotion is listless
I crane my neck to hear the sounds
Of my own body in a swansong.

The musicality of utter stillness,
Tuneful breath.
Walls that echo lullaby’s
I fill my empty spaces
With a handful of chords
A mouthful of words
And an earful of sound.

Motion and stillness,
Stillness and invisibility.
Sight in all of my dark places
Without my heart song
I would be lost.

But my brain plays a tune
Through my undulating darkness
I find light
I find peace
I find respite
In shades of silence.  

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