The Everlasting Playlist
Lee'Andrea Cunningham 2007 (Danville)
The next song begins,
Same as last,
Slowly,
As the song builds
The beat gets louder
And the singer pours her heart out as I wish I could,
But I don’t
The music fades,
the song ends,
There’s a brief moment of silence
And I suck in a shallow breath
Just holding it for a moment
As if my mouth was a dam holding water,
The yelling gets louder and so does my heartbeat
The next song begins
Same as last
Slowly,
I exhale that breath of air I was holding
as the music begins to heal my soul,
Like a band-aid heals a bullet wound
This song is different from the last
This one has no words
The instrumental wraps around me like a baby in a blanket
But somehow protects me from the outside world
Providing me sanctum
But as all songs do
The song ends
The pause returns
Ripping off the healing band-aid,
Destroying my sanctum
The next song begins
Same as last
Slowly,
But suddenly it stopped
I get up to grab my charger
But I realized that the yelling has stopped,
Worry rushes through me
Like one thousand spiders crawling up my back
Each leg resembles a new fear
A new spine-chilling possibility of why
Steadily I walk down the elastic hallway
That stretches with each step
Finally, I made it to the door
Hesitantly I knocked
A voice booms from the other side
Telling me to go away
While my mother's voice yells at him
To not yell at me
I walk away as another argument begins
Their voices start to fade away and
The next song begins
Same
As
Last
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Written on October 27, 2021
Submitted by leeandrea on November 30, 2021
Modified on March 10, 2023
- 1:27 min read
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Quick analysis:
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,443 |
Words | 291 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 14, 16, 24 |
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