The Great Quiet

Look alive for me.
Look alive for me, tonight;
everything that you knew to be true
was a lie.

Say a word for me.
I'll say a word for you, tonight;
that the sound of a voice might break free –
that a voice might help you sleep.

Stay away for me.
I'll stay away for you, tonight;
that my body won't cause yours to bleed –
that your breath won't make mine cease.

Stay alive for me.
Stay alive for me, tonight;
when my eye meets your eye in the end
I will touch your hand again.

Thomas LaVoy

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The text for The Great Quiet, the second track of Triptych: Pandemic, was written as my wife and I traveled back to Michigan in March 2020 as the world was shutting down.

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