The Sound of Lead
What did you say?
I said
don’t whisper
else we can’t hear you
like the soft pitter patters
of rain against skin
smooth smooth skin
absorbing the droplet of a sound.
I said
there’s corruption in the air
as lead dust chips away from the wall
and we can’t hear anything.
Not the skin peeling,
not the stripped walls.
Lucy Zhang is a software engineer at Apple. She enjoys writing fiction and poetry, as well as dabbling in making animations. She also watches a healthy amount of anime.
What did you say?
I said
don’t whisper
else we can’t hear you
like the soft pitter patters
of rain against skin
smooth smooth skin
absorbing the droplet of a sound.
I said
there’s corruption in the air
as lead dust chips away from the wall
and we can’t hear anything.
Not the skin peeling,
not the stripped walls.
Lucy Zhang is a software engineer at Apple. She enjoys writing fiction and poetry, as well as dabbling in making animations. She also watches a healthy amount of anime.