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Don't Sound
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Ended July 17, 2020 • 3 Entries • Created by Last
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Don't Sound
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Don’t Sound

“Come away from that window Dad. It’s dark outside, everyone can see in.”

“Don’t sound like darkness to me.”

“Dad, there’s water on the floor, it’s dangerous. Go the other way or you could slip.”

“Don’t sound like danger to me.”

“I can’t come over tonight, Dad. Angie says I am not spending enough time with her. She’s questioning my committment.”

“Don’t sound like love to me.”

“I don’t know what you want me to do. The doctors are saying you won’t live without this treatment.”

“Don’t sound like life to me.”

“I am begging you, please take the chemotherapy. I don’t want you to die.”

“Don’t sound like death to me.”

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Don't Sound
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7v7 in Fiction

Don’t...

we know baby

what it means

like meditation

a reverberation

comes and goes

...don’t

the tide of words

an undercurrent

to the thoughts

and longings for

which the will forms

... don’t

stands out as

an obstacle

do it or not

the thoughts

already heard

...don’t

taunts us as

just a word

in the wash

of psyche’s

deterrence

...don’t

...don’t

...don’t

07.10.2020

Don’t Sounds challenge @Last

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Don't Sound
(no need to tag me, I'll be checking to see what the challenge prompts, looking forward to reading, thanks for your time and talents in advance! :)
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Listen to your Teacher

We had been warned.

Mrs. Warton always said, "Don't Sound".

We all knew the rules.

But Tommy never listened.

He's the dumbest person in my class.

For a ten year old, he's pretty lame.

We should have known he'd do it.

Two hands in a single pant pocket was his tell.

But we watched him take his safety horn out anyway.

Damn all of us for letting him sound.

He had no idea.

No clue to the repercussions of his buffoonery.

But neither did we.

Now we're sure to die.

All of us.

It this pit of frightened children.

With no one left to save the day.

"Don't Sound" -our teacher had always said.

We should have listened harder.