by Tharindri Rupesinghe
I started with “voice”.
It led me to “speak”
With a voice only I own,
A unique instrument of
Rhetoric and rhyme.
Free association.
Next came “hear”,
Listen when they speak,
That’s all some people need,
An ear, a shoulder,
A sounding wall.
“Sound” comes next,
Sound and fury,
Like Shakespeare’s black warrior
Thought of life’s tale.
Afterwards, “right”.
Why? Who cares.
Free association.
Then “Bell”, like the
Hunchback.
Ringing, pulling on the
Ropes; Dangling.
“Toll”ing them for the
World to hear, masking
His ugliness by the
Gargoyles and the spires
That tower above him.
Finally, “Hemingway”
Who tolled a bell too.
Leaving us with that
All Essential Question,
For whom?
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