Audible Silence
Audible Silence
by Laura Summerville Reed
The years of audible silence
So many flashbulbs have captured
Lay spread out between my legs
Like a sated lover,
Childbirth, the ocean tide
Fading greys and party colors
Faces, places and stupid shit
It’s time to do the math
And divide the smiles
“Cut the baby in half”
I bet Wise King Solomon
Never imagined he’d have to decide
Who gets the feet of a bloody corpse
No more flashbulbs, no more party colors
No more monotone syllables uttered
In hallways, over airways
We’ll muddle through
You, me, her, and him
You, her, and him
Her, him, and me
We've salted our wounds to draw out the poison
And screamed at the pain of it
It’s time to scar over
So if the disease remains
We’ll die of the damned thing
But in audible silence
©LSR 2010