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If I Die Tomorrow, Would This Song Live On Forever?

even angels are silent in this lonely room where i cannot sit though chairs dangle around me so i perch as lyrics run roughshod through my head and my face to the world is right behind my eyes waiting to take its place should anyone walk through that door sickness grows insidious by nature and tonight i lose the ability to see through what were already-blurred eyes now i am sitting in the quite-literal dark lit only by a light removable and douseable with a quick flip of a switch so twice blind are my eyes and twice mute is my voice as my teeth are stuck together in a perpetual smile and as my mouth makes sounds and words i was not prepared to make or maybe i was too prepared to make laughter sounds behind me and i hear the chattering of people not weighed down by memories of a life long past but short forgotten because after a time those pictures of a world i thought had died come back they always come back and i wish i was not so heavy for these thoughts of deeds i dare not utter and cannot to those chattering fools at my back stay at the bottom of my heart and sink me down into the suffocating sands i unsteadily walk on and the lyric we mock is sadly true "if i was invisible..." because i am or my real self anyway but on the surface i smile and go about my business and try not to break into the million pieces i am made of that are slowly shaking apart.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2007




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