January 16, 2012

• The Sound of…

   

  The loudest sound I’ve ever heard

  Still echoes through my mind

  I’ve tried so hard to drown it out

  But a louder sound, I cannot find.

  Like a shot out of a canoon,

  It shoots through my ear;

  Bouncing around inside my head:

  No other sound can I hear.

  It is the deafening roar of a hurricane,

   Though it started as a gentle rain.

  What was once the hum of a buzzing fly

  Is now the thundering of a freight train!

  It has turned my world upside-down,

  It’s shattering my eardrum!

  There’s not a thing I can do about it

  Though I know where it comes from.

  For long ago, this sounds source

  Left and went away.

  Now this noise keeps me up at night,

  And distracted during the day.

  Though not a single word she utters,

  She’s screaming in my ear.

  Now forever I must suffer:

  For the sound of silence is all I hear.
  

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