Silence screams with fright
how loud its heart does pound
to the vastness of the night
silently Silence is bound
to escape these bonds
to fly away
to be heard and to hear
the clamor of the day
is all that Silence dreams
but try as it might
with sanity unbound
though it shrieks and though it fights
Silence cannot make a sound
“Did I see you in the streets, perhaps, in a winter long ago?” asked the man with the rumpled hair, his cane clutched close, his eyes squinched tight in myopic contemplation.
“Perhaps,” the girl echoed, taking him by the hand. “That is not imperative for you to know, though, so I would suggest simply forgetting it.”
Impertinent girl, he thought, but quite possibly not. Quite possibly not a girl, he meant, not that there was any doubt she was impertinent. The creature, indeed, was all too white and fluttery to be much of anything customarily called human, and rather too small in his opinion to be so blithe
They Also Serve Who Only Stand and Wait by orphicfiddler, literature
Literature
They Also Serve Who Only Stand and Wait
I don't know when we first went underground. I don't even know if it was one mass exodus, a swarm of mankind trickling through the earth's crust so vehement we carved our own caverns by the force of trampling feet, or whether it was a gradual process, perhaps even a repetitive one, a family here, a neighborhood there. For all I know, the echo of the damp subterranean machine has always reverberated off the cave walls, created long past by the Angels, who think of our well-being even while they shake their heads helplessly at our flaws.
They say that those who remained on the surface were raptured away in a great flash of light, like a millio
Silence screams with fright
how loud its heart does pound
to the vastness of the night
silently Silence is bound
to escape these bonds
to fly away
to be heard and to hear
the clamor of the day
is all that Silence dreams
but try as it might
with sanity unbound
though it shrieks and though it fights
Silence cannot make a sound
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