Saturday, December 21, 2024

If You Don’t Know the Words, Just Hum

Just three notes was

All it took to

Put this song inside my head.

Now it’s like

A barber pole of

Alternating white and red

Turning, churning,

Never ending,

Echoing in lost refrain,

Patterned chaos,

Just enough to

Drive a simple mind insane.

 

Time was I knew all the words,

But that was oh, so long ago,

As memory plays empty

Like a violin without its bow.

 

No pity for the lonesome mime

Who slowly beats a silent drum.

In truth, if you don’t know the words,

My gentle friend…

     Just hum.

 


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