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white noise and/or silence

August 15, 2014
By tarabrooke22 BRONZE, Mathias, West Virginia
tarabrooke22 BRONZE, Mathias, West Virginia
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Favorite Quote:
"Forget the dragon,
leave the gun on the table, this has nothing to do with happiness." -Richard Siken


like the boy that unstitched me did,
the lord isn't big on answering my questions.
the people around here
still
use their wonder asking why
i can't believe in him.

we've met at a tangent point,
and i doubt we'll reunite
in one of the four little white churches
down the road.

i heard him that one panicky-teared
night in October, under the full
moonlight, the wind rushing
between the spaces in the
trees, with shaky palms and knotted
hair and the frantic music of the pines.

a far away voice whispered:
you can't see the stars,
get out now before you're torn to shreds.

urging my faithlessness,
i closed my ears, curled my body
up
and felt the leaves crumble
under my weight.

he didn't offer his help again after that.
i still sewed myself together
alone
in the months after.

we haven't spoken since then.



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Lilia PLATINUM said...
on Aug. 23 2014 at 3:14 am
Lilia PLATINUM, El Cajon, California
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Favorite Quote:
Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder. ~ Rumi

this deserves a red check. it's amazing. congrats.