mouth noise

you aren't listening:

when you taste color on your tongue

and music explodes across your skin

and numbers play a symphony across the page,

what words can take

the taste of a sound

or the deep thrum against the skin from a rich smell,

can make the shadows dance in joy

against the candle flame?

what words have ever described

feelings that lap against the shores of the soul;

the great dissonance from reality

as senses meld and melt and reform

into the every day that is how i perceive?

what words can form the emotions

that bubble up into a fount that bursts through my skin

and into the world around me

fascinating me with the rhythms and sighs

that pulse and breathe from every object i interact with?

when words fail utterly

and i shout with all my senses inverted

until i feel deaf with the input

and still you do not hear.

you do not listen to the way a raindrop glitters

and holds entire worlds

until it splatters against a surface

dislodging its inhabitants.

what words can recreate my world for you

so that you can perceive

through my senses?

speak express emote, let you in,

emoting makes you nervous

full of tapping drumming humming spinning

emotions pure: love and fear and anger and sadness and joy

laughing crying stomping shouting

mutters flaps disjointed words

interacting with worlds you don't see

details you don't notice

rich tapestry and you can't count the threads.

why make words

useless abstractions that tell nothing

mean nothing

until there is a word that means

the taste of a shadow on your tongue like the last wisps of smoke from a blown out candle