Random Leaf #1691

"I came all the way there to sing. They told me the atmosphere, the air, the scenery would help so much in recovering what I had lost but once I got there. Once I got on there stage and did my thing, the audience were silent."

"Of course they are."

"I was not told they were deaf."

"And no one in the audience knew you lost your voice. Isn't it fascinating?"

"My voice? What do you mean my voice? I can speak and sing perfectly fine."

"But that is not your voice."

"What?"

"I am not talking about the sound coming out of your mouth."

"What are-"

"You said it yourself, right? You can't sing as you used too."

"But that's.."

"They were never there to hear your own voice. You were there to find it."

"But.. what? I don't understand.."

"Did you find it?"

"What do you mean? I was up on stage, I was dancing for them just for them to get any reaction. I was having cold sweats when after singing there weren't any reaction. Only when I noticed two or thrre of the audiences moving their hands had I realized they were doing signs. And so-"

"And so you danced."

"Yes! Yes, I dance. I'm a singer but first I'm also an entertainer. And most of all I'm an artist. I just.. I cannot simply go up the stage and leave my viewer clueless of what I sang."

"No one told you to dance."

"But I want them to know what I was singing. Else it will haunt me for a few days that I gave them a performance they do not understand."

"No one told you to-"

"Yes, no one did. But that is my duty."

"Your duty?"

"I have to."

"And all the while you were singing."

"I.. I guess I did."

"Were you glad you did?"

"Should I be? I was very tired of the song and for to redo it all the whilr dancing the song and you know what I guess it was even useless of me singing whie dancing because they couldn't hear what I was singing."

"But you did anyway."

"Yes! I felt the music, I have to. And the dance, which I never even practiced, just happened."

"Were you glad?"

"I was tired."

"The heavy breathing and the panting afterward is a testament to that. But did you notice you were smiling?"

"I was smiling?"