VOICES


She told me
They tell me
I'm ugly
That this world wasn't for me
God talks to me
I hear you
Speak to me
And God tells me not to listen
People will never understand
They can't hear him
But inside my head
He tells me what to do
She is never alone
The doctors give her pills
To take God away
Sometimes he grows quiet
Silence in the middle of the night
All alone again
I take her hand
And say I understand
But I will never hear her God


Michael V Hechtman