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Thread of Connections
Near the edge of the waterfall’s arc,
a boy, alone, stands listening to the crashing symphony of water, the inharmonious
voice
of agony
while towards the sky’s black portal, his words emanate:
H e l l o ?
ARE YOU UP THERE DAD?
searching,
listening…
[
]
alongside, tiny creatures stare up him - their curious lonely marbles reflecting him
the small shadow glides closer
and
closer trying to connect with ------- rising and falling like a yoyo
then
d
o
w
n
w
a
r
d
… a dithering soul steadily floats above
*
*
*
Out on the city’ s streets,
she reaches out to indifferent bodies and empty eyes,
begging for a familiar aspect, a child’s face
searching
and writing:
HAVE YOU SEEN MY--------------
on torn papers
with gesturing of height, clothes, eyes ,
natural, motherly gestures of futility, communications of lost existence
while silently Invoking God with every vacant expression-
OHLORDOHLORDOHLORD
her sole thread…
*
*
*
Enclosed in his room,
the old man steadily presses those lonely black and white keys,
releasing graceful tunes in attempts to recover her distant voice,
while suffusing scraps of his heart throughout acoustic waves
at night, with no signal of her return, he drifts to the melody of his dreams:
her figure floats above as silent words desire…
a solemn mouth gives to
the outline of his self breaking away and gradually rising
and rising
towards the light’s orchestra
as all connections fade
into
the :
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