no one gets a second.
In school we were told to walk with confidence,
to avoid staring down at the ground,
which I often find I do just so that I won't step in mierda.
Even when I am walking briskly,
column straight,
I feel like I can barely take in the surroundings.
After weeks of walking the same route home I saw a movie theater on the way.
Some of my friends have caught on,
when they talk I can't hear them.
This is only sometimes.
Sometimes as they talk I realize I am losing every word they try to communicate.
They slip through my head unprocessed,
I think this is because my head is too full of thoughts I can't put into words.
I'm glad you said
that words unite and divide us.
This is why I've perfected telepathy.
Tonight I feel lonely.
2 comments:
I like getting to read multiple new posts at once, but I hate reading "tonight I feel lonely" and not having commented that same night.
I can imagine you in this poem.
Wow. Words totally do unite and divide us.
It's that Zen concept of words not being the objects they represent. But language is also such a powerful tool, you just need to not forget that fact.
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