Lost Poetry
Please Speak Louder
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Please speak louder I cannot hear you Is it only I To sense your Lack of tone? At last memory We were in a Crowded theatre Watching a beautiful Love story begin to play Before our glistening stare Surrounded by life And music Floating in rhythm Satin and flowers Melodious angels With fluttering wings Warm arms Heavenly fingers Directing us Many seats had been Filled with happy Smiling faces Eyes dared not Stray from the stage And risk the loss of One solitary moment Enrapt in melodrama As the plot unfolded Excitement thundering Through the aisles The cast was unity And promises echoed Through sunlit corridors Rejoicing that our Show would forever Grace Broadway It was one of those Magical fantasies you realize Where doors never close And you dress in your finest And dine afterward Then make love for eternity Silence is a Prerequisite Or they may Ask you to leave But your whispers Are now indefinable They fail to breeze lovingly Toward my ears Perhaps they are Drawn down another avenue? Now one by one the Audience leaves Or has already departed Until I can see Only one seat is occupied Not swathed in red velvet throne But hard cold undecorated Wood It is mine Did we scream so loudly You and I That the theatre grew Impatient and emptied Without charm And you lost your voice from the strain Has your whisper grown faint Or might you still be screaming? And it is I who cannot hear you Because it is I Who has suddenly gone deaf …
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