Monday, October 7, 2013

Poetic Preview: The Threat of...

It adorns our couches
Your schools, its halls
An absence of vocal chords
Scrimmaging noise
Rhetorical jibes
The threat is
Silence

We're told to give up our favourite courses
To pursue someone else's measure of success
It takes advantage of us when we're alone
In the darkness where sleep dwells
It passes us on our streets
When the lights are out
&
Our ears are vacant of music

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