
Beneath this silence
Where speech can’t venture, I cry
Alone with the night
Blast from the past:
Alone in the crowd
Solitude in the hustle
The silence of sound
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Beneath this silence
Where speech can’t venture, I cry
Alone with the night
Blast from the past:
Alone in the crowd
Solitude in the hustle
The silence of sound

Sitting on your throne
Made of oxhorn, conch, and stone
Alone in your world
Blast from the Past:
In time even the
Wind will give an answer to
Gravity’s promise

Always looking out
Guarding against foreign threats
Never gazing in
Another version with a different emphasis and themes:
Always looking out
To ward off threats, never sees
The beauty within

All I did today
I did as if others were
Watching over me
Blast from the Past:
Nothing’s more of a
Waste and annoyance than
Careless solemnity.

You know what has a
Soul based on what decides to
Keep its own secrets
Blast from the Past:
Lying to live, or
Living to deceive, losing
Credibility

Wounded, sad, angry,
Unheard, dismissed, ignored,
Mourning, yet resolved
Blast from the Past:
Favored yet confined
Peaceful yet surrendering
Hopeful yet watchful

My soul is as
Vast as the world,
A deep river
Unfolding forever
A Blast from the Past:
Here is your desert
Where nothing is real except
Your boundless feelings

Who am I amidst
The quagmire of debate ‘tween
The self and its brain?
Blast from the Past:
Postmodern crisis:
The power of perspective,
Generative force

I refuse to be
Defined by your quest to push
Me up to your oblivion
No matter how many
Times you push me, I will
Always bounce back
— The stone’s response to Sisyphus

I can’t sit still, yet
I feel agitated when
I go do something
Blast from the Past:
Excitement surrounds
In this amazing place, and all
I want is to sleep