Chion

Today from the office next door

Through thin chalky walls

I could hear a boy crying

Like for an hour

Or rather a therapeutic hour

So for 52 minutes straight

But still a long time

This little boy cried and cried

Muffled at first

Then graduating to full scale wail

No words, no reason, just sobbing

Unabated

Breathless

It was the cry only a mother could console

Deep solemn rhythmic

He cried with all is little might

And I realized that must be why he was crying

He must have no mother to soothe him

I thought to myself as I put my headphones on

But they weren't enough

To kill the sound

That punishing noise

He must not have a mom

And neither do I

Not anymore

So I cried too 

Right along with him

From the other side of the thin chalky wall

Only I did my crying 

In silence

Photo: Masseu. http://masseu.blogspot.com/2014/01/crying-boy-sketch.html