Before Now

 Footsteps like drums echo down halls.
Empty mind knows not silent footfalls.
Chair springs squeak in a painful scream.
Body and soul form a solitary team.
Heartbeats roll thunder in hollow ears.
Drowns out the senses, dampens fears.
Searing breath burns naked skin,
Hell's revenge for evil and sin.
Eyes all seeing with no sight to behold.
Merely existing, too jaded, too cold.
Fingers reaching, needing a touch.
Just not there, what's desired so much.
Nostrils flair adsorbing each scent.
Smell who's there, who came, who went.
Seek the music, so loud and strong.
Stop all senses, so nothing feels wrong.
Become the vibrations both natural and symphonic.
Take the music like a drug addict's tonic.
Sound blasts attack till all senses are blocked.
Only then can solitude be unlocked.

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