The Hamlet Project

Would you rather be blind or deaf?
Blind, blind, always blind.
A world without sight would be hard for certain.
I am obsessed with the spectacle of life
With the grand visual statements
With color
With shape
With the power of a bold bright image.
I would be bereft
If I were to lose my sight –
But to lose sound
Would break me into a thousand pieces
To not hear music
To lose the sound of your voice
The timbre, the pitch, the rhythm
To miss the gurgle of a stream
The shake of laughter
To lose sound
Would be to lose the very heart of me.
I don’t think I hear just in my ears
I hear all the way in here
The vibrations move me from the inside out
Listening is like my super power
Like what I do first and foremost.
If I were to lose everything –
Let me lose that last.