Poem: The Unappeasable Noise and Silence (Neither One Is Enough) Written by: Alan Lisanti (2015)

The Unappeasable Noise and Silence

(Neither One Is Enough)

Written by: Alan Lisanti (2015)

Website:  Misanthropic Poetry

This

Infinity vortex

Has devoured time

Pulled consciousness into

A vacuum

Elapsed hours

In the blink of an eye

Returned me to reality

In real time

With flashes of interference

In this fortress of isolation

Crossed signals

Like inter dimensional

Pendulum between two worlds

One that exists

And one for retreat

Nothing absorbed

I'm so engulfed in duality

It all blurs the line

Excess sonic bursts

Are arbitrary dice rolls

The sounds melt into themselves

And I am the collateral damage

Attention spread so thin

Should pull the body apart

But I stay together

Slip even further

Drift beyond the outer limits

Here and gone, in unity

Here and now

And elsewhere simultaneously

Heard every nuance

In mic'd up hyperspeed

And it was lost on

Account of

Overloaded memory

Never processed

Only heard

Never happened

Liquid concrete

Evaporated

Into air and earth

There is a dead zone

In this world

Exempt from laws of

Our own polarity

I think they left me there

I think I fed too much

On the therapy of song

I think the notes

Seeped into my blood

I think the muse

Merely wanted out

Of his prison

And scratched and clawed

Only to find more walls

Like a small box

In a smaller box

Repeating the madness forever

I think the only thing that

Satiates the hunger

Needs to feed more

Much more than we'll sustain

By the time it depletes us

And we'll long for more again

That transcendence, I crave

Has bred this

Desensitized

Separation, as one

Entity, within itself

And it has sharpened

Both sides of the blade