The Sound of Silence
Graduate episode
hello darkness my old friendi've come to talk with you againbecause a vision softly creepingleft its seeds while i was sleepingand the vision that was plantedin my brain still remainswithin the sound of silencein restless dreams i walked alongnarrow streets of cobble stonebeneath the halo of a street lampi turned my collar to the cold and dampwhen my eyes were stabbedby the flash of a neon lightthat split the lightand touched the sound of silenceand in the naked light i sawten thousand people maybe morepeople talking without speakingpeople hearing without listeningpeople writing songs that voices never shareand no one daredisturb the sound of silence "fool" said i, "you do not knowsilence like a cancer growshear my words that i might teach youtake my arms that i might reach you" but my words like silent raindrops felland echoed in the walls of silenceand the People Bowed and Prayedto The Neon God The Madeand The SignHed Out Its Warningin The Words That It Was Formingand The Signs SA ID "The Words of The Prophetsare Written on The Subway Wallsand Tenement Halls" Whisperings "Whisperings" Whisperings "Whispering In the Sounds of Silence
