A Collection of Poems

091: Sound/Voices

Last part of the [21 Elements] project, inspired by [Rem Tokimiya] from Final Fantasy Type-0 (Reishiki). I'm playing the game!

First part of the [Gray Goodbye] project, centered on the idea of an "ironic farewell."

This poem is dedicated to [Nianne Carla S. Hernandez], the flute-wielder of the element...

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SOUND/VOICES

Restless heartless ageless voices

Filled my days with emptiness

Washed my nights with hopeless wishing

That your voice will fill my head

Someday, somewhere, somehow you will

Sing for me, this song of gray

Will soon resound each passing day

With every tone of bleeding pain

When I wake up,

My world is gray

I take a bath

I change my clothes

I drink it up

My medicine

And go someplace

My world is gray

When I enter

This place of gray,

I take the stairs

I open doors

I listen to

The constant words

And take a breath

Of air of gray

When I wander

This place of gray

I open up

The dirty windows

Look upon

The stolid walls

And feel the bars

Of iron gray

When I go home

From this gray life

I close my eyes

I run away

And keep it in

My medicine

From failing to

Hide my own gray

But when I look

Into my eyes

Into the gray

That I despise

I still desire

This medicine

This world of gray