Aural wishes
by cricketjeff on February 15, 2010. © Jeff Green, All rights reserved
I wish that I could let you hear the avalanche of words
That slowly bounce around inside my head.
The rumble of the great debates, the twitterings like birds,
The magic that ensures my muse is fed.
The rhymes for words that others speak, I play with all they say,
A mumbo jumbo murmuring that never goes away.
I wish that you could hear the beats that echo through my mind,
Di diddle DUM di diddle DUM di DEE.
And then the fuss the voices make when words are hard to find,
So they can’t build a line of poetry.
They read each other’s fav’rite books for other ways to say –
The thoughts that keep us up all night and will not go away.
I wish that you could hear it all and then you’d understand,
The reasons that I have to write for you.
Cacophonies of metered words were not what I had planned
But now they jostle nightly in a queue.
I hope that every now and then you’ll find that what I say
Gives you a key to some strong box that never goes away.
I wish that we could sit and hear the universal sound,
The rhythm of the Moon and all her stars,
The babbling of mountain brooks, the raindrums on the ground,
Or Rock musicians torturing guitars.
And in our heads we’d hear the words, the things we need to say,
To keep us tied so tightly that we’ll never fade away.
English