Today was… a lot! Another productive and engaging day at university, but one that ended in me hitting a bit of a wall as my momentum came to an abrupt end. I fell asleep, exhausted and upset, as soon as I got home, and on waking found I was even more sensitive than usual to exterior sounds.
As I lay there frowning, I wrote this poem, which attempts to sum up my reaction to those noises.
Still
In the chaos and clatter
As a thousand thousand
Unsummoned sounds
Peeked around the edges of her perception
She found that if she lay
Very
Very
VERY
still
The stillness was almost
(But not quite)
A substitute for silence.
Dani O'Shea 