Voices

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voices from the thousands of years that have past

from the thousands of nether regions of the cosmos

a million voices howling inside me

rising up all at once

a cacophony

blustering between my ears

sometimes I listen

sometimes I don't

sometimes they rise and fall

like the sound of ocean waves

I'm so used to them

sometimes they surge

from the belly of my soul

pressing me toward something

resembling a refuge

of numbness and silence