Could I explain
would you hear
would they understand.
The all-consuming sound of just one word.
One single word.
It started a war
it ended a life
it became a raging torrent of sound.
It evokes darkness
and surrounds you with light
so bright
it blinds you to what is real.
Sound becomes muffled
we lose our self in knowledge.
in words we lose all.
So, we write them down.
we pin them to paper like butterflies.
The colour reminds us of unicorns
and stardust.
A lovely shade of blue.
But they don’t remain ours
we share them,
lose them,
desecrate them.
And in the end
we forget that one word
just one word,
spiralling through our lives.
We grasp at it with grubby hands
and harts filled with venom.
It slips away
it races out of time.
It will never die
never fade.
And we will never unsay what’s etched in our souls.
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Uitstekend gedoen. Love it.