whispering at night #1

The City's Whispers

by Ryan Williams

Try walking alone one night on some bright city street. Listen to the noise and confusion and chaos that swirl around you, like the music you remember hearing the first time you fell in love. Listen hard, because intricately woven within every sound that passes you by is a whisper, a quiet voice that speaks with the wisdom only an aged and learned city can possess. And if you ever manage to fade away from the reality of it all, leaving only the intertwined rhythms that tell the stories of all the people this great city has seen, the words will finally make themselves clear: "To live, to learn, to love, it takes two . . . "