SOUNDS
Where do sounds go?
A car crashes on Main Street
and someone screams as
the car hits the traffic light pole.
Where does that sound go?
So too a bell - it rings
on the hour from a big tower.
Where does that sound go?
As people walk down a
certain corridor in a nursing
home they can hear an old lady,
who was a teacher years and
years ago, teaching class once
again - with her mind lost in
the last stages of dementia.
Where do those sounds go?
A little kid is praying on the side
of his bed - kneeling on the floor -
next to his grandmother - who has
him for the weekend - while his
parents went to a wedding in Utah.
She is teaching him how to pray
like she was taught as a kid and how
she taught her kids when they
were kids - but they have given
up on all that childish stuff.
Where do those sounds go?
Where do sounds go?
© Andy Costello, Reflections
2018
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