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bonfirelights

Published: May 20, 2014

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I’d plug a microphone into my mind
if that would help me speak it.
The message is always incomplete
by the time it gets to you.

I want to believe that communication is more
than tapping the pane of a TV screen
and twisting bad antennae
hoping something filters through.

I have tried and I have tried
to believe that we can synchronise
but I’m never on your network
and you’re never watching mine.

There must be something more than what we know,
some higher frequency.
Because words have made me feel powerful so many times
and so many times they have failed me.

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