A hail storm
A downpour
A thunderstorm of sound
Familiar voices looped

Blasting
Darkening
Suffocating
Drowning

Ear buds
The only outgrowth
Rootless in
Jammed into
Infertile soil

Blasting free petals
Tearing
Grinding to a pulp

Any independent thought budding
Trying to surface
Or any having breeched in an unguarded moment of quiet
Having the audacity to bloom