Clanging, ringing pounding screaming

The din of contentious release
Hammered and repeated
Drummed into the night
Small ears covered
Electronic volumes rose
Shades drawn down
Thin hope against
Thin walls

Long held essences
Screamed and raged for release
Denial a yoke of thorns

Wants versus Has
Gives against Takes
Driving opposite Yielding
Yin and Yang fierce in Need

Lives piled onto other lives
Maddened by cheek and jowl
Violence a gritty layer of dust
Over everything they have
Numb to the noise
Slicing through the night
Thinking pain
Not pleasure
The cause

Sweat and sex
Push and pull
Pounding
Screaming

The din
Of contentious…

…release.