Thursday, November 14, 2024

What I hear and don’t hear (2015)

 I hear her voice in my head at night

Just before sleep grips me,

Not a call in the dark,

A remembrance of

Something I can no longer

Hear for real,

Wishing I could,

The voice of someone

Who has changed

From someone I knew

When, long after

The fair days turned sour

I hear it all,

Good and bad,

The reverberation of it

Blasting through time,

The last voice

I lase heard

Saying how she only

Hated some men,

When after that,

Silence,

Leaving me to

Whistle passed

The graveyard

Of what used to be

Filling my head with

What I thought

Should have been

But never was

And never will b e,

Staggering through

A landscape

Littered with fallen leave

And naked branches

Fall into winter

Without hope

Of spring,

My footsteps

 crunching leaves,

the only real sound

I hear

 


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