2022/9/13 #poetry You put them over your ears and the sounds go away all the noise fades you get space for your mind to play They press against your head firm but not too much without the sense of hearing you're more sensitive to things like touch Every breath and every swallow can be heard as plain as day it's as if your head were hollow just as all your friends like to say Go on bellow out I'm impervious to your blast I can see you mouth articulating but the sound waves just move past It's not a perfect silence but it's the best that I can find without the cacophonous onslaught I feel much more kind