Loud Cloud

Loud Cloud

Bob Komives

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Awaken!

Hear the Sound!
Look to the stage!
Are they the act or interlude?

Loud cloud over talent and beauty,
noise over music,
vibration over feeling,
as if
the talent and the beauty feel less than they are,
as if
we neither hear nor see what they are,
as if
we could not notice,
as if
they could not care.

We failed to hear their whisper.
Is that why they shout?
Is that what this cloud is about?
Did we miss the mist of genius,
as ours was missed,
as ours was mistaken
by a generation that knew too much?

We knew better then.
Do we know too much now?
Are we what this cloud is about?
     Awake for our act.
     Asleep for the interlude.

Bob Komives :: Fort Collins © 2002 :: Loud Cloud :: 0208