Pulse

woken again by words, lyrics

the rhythm of a vowel-less heartbeat,

the score of life’s music

a muffled metronome

swaying in one’s breast,

a scribbled line of troubled water

the pitch and swell sine wave

silently breaking shore,

a finger-drumming impatience

alters the beat, recording

the helter-skelter of each day

as the music changes its song

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© Graham Sherwood 08/21