Listen to the Silence

 

The band plays on without a sound,

The audience just mills around.

While we move on without a way,

The cacophony blares for days.

 

Is the music too hard to hear?

Are frequencies beyond the ear?

Or are we deaf to warning tones,

Just as we shun enlightening tomes?

 

Eventually, the music ends,

But we go on to just pretend

Until the show becomes our life

Of endless misery and strife.