Freeze

Just. Stop right now.

Please. Just stop everything.

The volume needs to come down, needs to bleed

At exceedingly increasing speed towards its needs

(Wait, scratch that, I meant knees)

Better yet, it needs to freeze

So just freeze

Freeze out the general hum

The hum of the humdrum and the scum and the dumb-dumbs

The ones that bumble and fumble and stumble so humble as they tumble

Inwards, outwards and under the tundra like thunder, blunder after blunder

It’s no wonder that there always remains some other out there

Uncovered, unsmothered, unlov...ered

Scratch that last one

Freeze it out

Freeze out the rush

The undercurrent mush that will not, cannot, shall not just… just shush

The engines in cars, the battery bars,

The cellular, elevator, tele-refrigerator

Energizer enervator relegater

The constant ticking or clicking

That won’t stop picking and keeps on sticking

By the prickling and texting of your thumbs

Everything noisy and vexing, this way comes

And now it’s going out

Freeze it out

Freeze out the walkers and squawkers and knock-knocks,

Cock blockers, beat boxers, punk rockers

All out now

The jockers and boxers and the head-blocks (or something like that) alike

The ones with mop tops or the goldie locks, none of whom know how to stop the

Talk-ta-talk-talk-ta-talk

Per tutte le parole, for all the words, para toda las palabras

Non si dice nulla, nothing is said, no se dice nada

They say nothing and mean even less

The vixens, the fix ems, politicians, smitten and slitherin’

They all stay hidden

Their words stay unwritten, stay fixed on the heads of the pens

Before the ink ever spreads itself thin

But their blabber gets in

Let them never begin

House-leavers and couch-weavers and mouth breathers

Ugh, the mouth breathers!

I mean for god sake, blow your fucking nose!

But that’s not where I wanted to go, so...

Freeze out the silly little gimmicks and limericks and outer inner bits

Among all of the fringes and limits

The frames in space and time within this mind

That tick-tick-tick even when the clock will not wind

The simple sides of the climb that no one else could possibly find

So they stay confined as mine

The intricate plots and photo shops of over-the shoulder shots

The who’s-got-what-from-whiches and witches and switches from each slot

All stored neatly in one spot

The notes and quotes from each boat across each moat that hope to float

The faces in shapes and sizes and spaces

That drapes and rises and chases

All through the escapes and demises and disgraces

All through our scrapes and surprises and faces...

...wait…

What am I even doing right now?

I’m making more noise to describe the noise that I’m trying to escape

Ok, screw it, screw everything I just put down on the plate

I need to escape the… well, I guess the escape

Just let it take flight

And let it have weight

And let it be free

Just let it freeze

And I’ll pay the fee, but let me be free

And let me be me

Just stop everything in one, two,

Two and a half

And three quarters

And three

...ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...

I can feel it like a shiver

Like it will almost ring

As the the sound gets drowned out and found out

And not a word of mouth can sing

Not a soul can now bring me back to down from this mountain top

To which I am now the king

No longer an heir, now up in the clear, up into the air where

I

Can’t

Hear

A

Thing

The mouths are moving, but the waves never reach

Like enemies at the gate that never quite breach

They crash and claw at me

But no sand moves from this beach

No puedo oír nada.

The phone rings and no one reaches

No clicks and pings, no dial tone increases

No whispering, no gossiping, no snitching, no speeches

I feel the weight melt away as the pressure releases

Non posso sentire una cosa.

It’s almost like it’s deafening, the weight of not knowing what’s at stake

Not feeling what it takes to be the great break in this muted state

I’m feeling at peace, and I’m feeling awake

It’s like from up here, I don’t just hear things differently, I know them differently

I don’t just hear the peace and quiet, but I feel at peace in quiet

I don’t just hear the faint wind around, I rise and fall with it

I don’t just hear myself breathing, I know that I’m breathing

All in a way that I never knew that I never knew

And never dreamed I'd wanted to

So please

Please just keep it all away today

Just let it freeze

I’ll pay the fee, but let me be free

And let me be me