Can you hear me?

I speak and you nod

And I laugh

And we keep on

But can you hear me?

You listen as I let forth

All my thoughts and interests

Into a loud buzzing goop

That you can barely understand

Can you hear what I really mean?

My mind won't let me

Interpret the thoughts

That race and rage and

Buzz and scream for attention

Can you understand what even I may not?

Waves of thought crash

Aga...

If silence had a scent, it would smell like warm summer air as you lay in the softly trickling grass.

It would smell like a crisp cool breeze as the first quiet snowflakes of winter wisp through the air.

It would smell like the sharp scent of a hospital as a mother embraces her sleeping newborn.

It would smell like the putrid smell you find while checking on an ill and elderly neighbor. ...