noise(less)

noise(less) slap of dominoes on a wooden table the upside of double sixes blocking the one escape from a haunting memory of someone screaming in the night someone torn from the silvery remnants of a cocoon life muddle of busy streets cacophonous clatter under mushroom police sirens feet and more feet stepping through doors and arches and over sidewalk betrothals immutable initials encircled by concrete hearts just before dawn squeak of bedsprings repetitious and unrelenting until after a groaning gasp blending with a guttural moan nothing and then nothing and then something cruel and acidic something that eats the moment silence Chaplinesque and idiotic a flutter of eyelids and fumbling fingers not blind but like blind sounds unheard except by the empty heart waiting for a whisper that never comes ©  Copyright  Kennedy James, 2013. All rights reserved.