did you want <br />to say <br />something <br />to me? <br />but the words <br />were shut out by the windows <br />and the walls bounced <br />the syllables into the chimney <br />and up and out <br />to paint the clouds black… <br /> <br />did you want to say all <br />what was in your mind? <br />and the music came in just then <br />and drowned sweet words <br />and the weight of the books <br />fell on the living… <br /> <br /> <br />did you want <br />to sing something <br />to me? <br />but the cacophony of living <br />and the agony <br />of activity <br />sitting in the wings <br />drowned the performance… <br />and the falling leaves <br />in the Gardens of the North <br />covered all those standing alive… <br /> <br /> <br />did you want to whisper a word <br />but the ears you drew near to <br />were like the vengeance of birds? <br /> <br />so your words <br />were never <br />heard <br />and will never be re-created <br />even by <br />machines <br />yet-to-be races will create <br />in times far hence <br />in the future <br />to bring back all words <br />of the human past<br /><br />Raj Arumugam<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/did-you-want-to-say-something/
