silently

i am the one

who sits back to watch
the apocalypse
not delighting in destruction-
simply apathetic
at the worst of times

who soliloquizes silently,
handpicking syllables and synonyms
        ripe and bursting with hidden meaning
from the lexicon at
the back of her head

who lives for noise but won’t open her mouth
instead dancing nimble fingers
over black and white keys
creating shades of grey

like shades of stone and metal,
a self-built prison
with bars of music never shared
and concrete words unspoken
but still misunderstood

written f24jun2011.

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Author: korey

minnesotan writer/musician.

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