Noise

My earbuds

Are a blessing

Keeping the

Voices outside

So I can think

Or rather, not

Let myself

Fall into the

Music

The same

Song for

Ten days

A mantra

To keep

Me sane

But then

One falls

And I hear it

The world

Volume maxed

So loud

Too loud

And like a

Knife

His voice cuts

Through the

Rest

The only

Thing I can

Understand

I pause

Then silence

A minute

Without the

Music playing

Is one where

I can hear

Them

Moving on