Noise

Psst … did you hear of the one that got away

Skipping past cpu’s meditative hum,

Vaulting over shrilly warning swipe machines,

Skimming under clickity-clicking keyboards,

Tiptoeing around laboriously groaning A/C,

Evading cement-grinders’ whooping coughs,

Cart-wheeling honks, hoots, bleats,

Narrowly missing screeching tyres …

A loud slamming door, was it?

A defiant roar maybe chest thumping,

Or a finger drumming conundrum?

Not sniffling, sobbing or muffled cries?

Nor shattering of broken glass?

A hissing fit of repercussions or,

An anxious croaking burp …

Or did it go anti-climatically,

Like empty droning static,

lost in creaky scratching of crickets.