High-Spirited Serenity
Your mother's silvery soft spoken voice as she tells you she loves you
The first word that escapes your small pink lips.
Your wide open eyes, as they glaze over each sentence of To Kill A Mockingbird
Your teacher’s modulated voice as she greets you good morning
Lyrics to the song that makes you carefree, joyful, exuberant
The lines the actors repeat a thousand times for the broadway play you saw in December
The vulnerable words, exchanged, describing your beautiful endless love
The last word spoken, soft, quiet, suppressed, unfinished
****** A pin dropped in a silent room
Before you can comprehend, all these words that had meaning to you
Gone forever,
banished to meaningless sounds
The endless abundance of words used and heard,
The meaning of your moments
Gone forever
Destroyed by the carnage of one single, simple word