Sounds

I explain with words and it sounds

like we are using the same words but

you say you don't hear what I hear.

I explain with my body and you hear

an old story stitched from old sounds

while I am desperately new. Yes but.

I stopped explaining long ago but

you still hear me explaining, you hear

the echo of my earnest sounds.

You hear the sounds, but they're not what you hear.