A Cassette Tape

My friend in college once told me, “Guys look for a new love like dubbing a new song on a cassette over an old song to get over it. Girls wait till they get over it, then record a new song after a blank period.” Interesting, huh? If you agree, then click on “like” below...Oops, this wasn’t Facebook! Anyways, I don’t think it’s a guy or girl thing. We all have rushed to the next thing when we were not really over it, right? (The so-called rebound) Yeah, I have gone for the second serving after saying, “I’m sooooooo full!” Oh, that's just called a pig out! lol. I was young back then, haha. Anyways, repeating this stretches out and wears out the spool, the stomach, the heart, or whatever. Instead, take a deep breath! Enjoy silence. ...So came another poem to share.

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A Cassette Tape

How do you get past
A song you no longer listen to?

Do you cover up the broken tab
And dub a new song over
As to forget the old one?

A faint noise remaining on
A stretched spool
Never moving on forward.

As for me,
I would hold the cassette
On the palm of my hand and
Cry over its levity.

When the melody
No longer rings in my head,
Then I bring in a new song
After an one-deep-breath-long blank.

If a life allows only one tape,
Then I rather run it all the way through
Instead of wearing down
The same spot over and over.
Filling the tape
With songs well-selected
Interleaved with dense silence.