A Voice in the Throng
by Trena Reed
Her voice cries out from the deafening throng
Raising above raucous crowds in an empty room
whispering a desperate yearning to belong
to escape the echoes of her empty tomb
Hollow laughter echoes from her parched throat
She hums a melancholy tune devoid of notes
Cracked lips fill reams of paper with notes
Of hope, reaching out for a single connection in the throng.
Her cries of loneliness get stuck in a throat
clogged with laughter, leaving no room
For her fears. Her loneliness is a sealed tomb
Vibrating with her yearning to belong
In a desperate yearning to belong
She spills words onto perfumed slips of pink note-
book paper, she pounds her bloody fits on the tomb
walls, hoping to get a reaction from an indifferent throng
The fullness of her pain leaves no room
For belief, so she hangs gaudy gold beads at her throat
Slips into a daring dress with a deep plunging throat
That reveals her desperate yearning to belong
Her hips sway seductively as she enters the room
The gently whisper of her skirt causes men to take note
Carefully manicured feet joining the gyrating throng
Her hopeful heart franticly beats against loneliness’ tomb
The throbbing music cannot reach the tomb
of her soul. Hopelessness steals up her throat
threatening to release a deafening throng
of cries, exposing her desperate yearning to belong
Instead she hides her pain in the song’s throbbing notes
Gracefully dancing around the vacuous room
Dolls with painted faces draped in silk decorate the room
Each eager to escape their lonely empty tomb
Instead they greedily take meticulous notes
Of the gaudy jewelry around their rivals throats
Using their bodies to hide their desperate yearning to belong
These empty faces makes up the indifferent throng
If they stopped taking petty notes, look around the room
And embraced their rivals in the throng, they would find an exit from their tomb
Their throats would fill with laughter and they would finally find a place to belong
Copyright © 2010 Trena Reed
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