Reverberations

My words fall and liter surrounding ground 

Booming reverberations of hollow sound

For the person I yearn to persuasively teach

Has hardened their mind, set it out of reach

So compromises that perhaps could be

Are swept away like so much debris

And lost along with my ideas it seems

Are the missed chances of now dead dreams

Leaving behind hard-cased silent wall

From which we both will most likely fall

 If every we yearn to once again try

To link together ‘neath crystal blue sky

Cracked and broken as we may be

We’ll risk far less in future to see

If doors exist, if bridges can be built

Instead we’ll salve our own true guilt

With accusations and angry feelings

Scorched earth walls, blown out ceilings

Days will come, years will flee

All we’ve done will cease to be 

Because right here, and right now

We didn’t talk, wouldn’t find out how  

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