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What the Walls Heard

March 26, 2013
By Stephanie-M GOLD, Salt Lake City, Utah
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When I was a child I believed
that inside the walls, there was
another world,
with other people,
and time did not crush down on them like it does on us.

And so I spoke to apartment plaster,
spun some stories, soft and silver,
for I was but a sliver
in a space so vast.

© Robyn R., Middleton, WI

The author's comments:
The feeling of insignificance that inevitably engulfs the young explorer when she realizes the world as a whole is fantastically larger and more important than she is, in every way possible.
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