Promptly 4 and 5

Sound

Sound

What is that whistling sound that I hear?
Like an electrical hum of machinery;
I’m unable to say if it’s distant or near,
it might even be part of the scenery.

Not a hum or a buzz, a hiss or a tune,
it is white noise with no corners or reason -
constant and yet shy, it inhabits the room,
without crescendo, it wants no completion.

The other sounds bleached and cast from my ear
while this monotonous sound becomes rife;
not conditioning air nor inspiring fear,
I know it at last - it’s the rhythm of life.


Line count: 12
Rhymed abab
For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 42
Prompt: Listen. What’s the most prominent sound you hear? Write about it.