VOICE

VOICE

I asked you
begged you

not to listen
to that voice

but even if you
did not summon it

you let it ring
in your head

something in your head
told you this was the song
the dance of life
music of
    our very existence

and not the scratched old pressing
of a foghorn jamming
with an
        air raid siren

drowning out
        everything harmonious
there
    might have been.