Lights.

Faster, faster

Speed of lightening

Crushing, crushing

Smashed punched peeled

Whirling whirring

Fast paced

The sound of a thousand things happening at once

Blending into one unifying sound

The way every voice and scream on our Earth sounds like a solid static to everyone around us

Traffic horns and sirens

School bells and marching bands

And music, TV, footsteps, high-fives, crinkly fabrics, papers, key boards clacking

All rhythmically in sync with an unknown beat

We complete the motions

And together create one tone

Ringing out into what we don’t know

Harmonizing with other galaxies

Speeding along faster than what is imaginable

Screeching brakes slam

And finish the chorus

We launch bombs and they steady the ever charging, marching, base line

It's there

Always there

You don’t have to know about it,

You don’t even have to know your part

And you add the to speed

The eventually shattering speed

The eventually shattering speed that will increase and increase

And increase and increase

And increase

Until it reaches the end

And we don’t know what the encore is either

Which is okay

Because in the middle there will be silence.

11/5/2014

Riley Welch