Aphonic Cacophony

The best you can say in your defence is ‘listening 

doesn’t compensate for not hearing’ - but then its 

a past tense argument when you are not actually 

accused of anything - and so we play ‘sotto voce’ 

for the tension arising disappointingly out of what 

might have been a missed cue - that evades you 

even more efficiently than imagined suggestions 

of sounds explaining what it might have been 

So the silence remains deafening & hearing aids 

merely confirm that is the case; you’d like to ask, 

what is it making this different from an argument; 

we’re not disagreeing as much as not speaking - 

that even paints intrigue pink - and again, hoped 

for dialogue shrieks in aphonic cacophony 

© 8 April 2015, I. D. Carswell