The Rumor

The Rumor

I began as a whisper, a small, careful release of neither lie nor truth. A seed, no bigger than doubt. I found my first ear, warm and willing. I coiled like a tiny snake, shed my first skin, growing from each retelling. Oh! I love the coffee-scented breaths, the cool circulating breeze from room to room, cubicle to cubicle. I slid into keyboard keys, into textbooks, into messages. Sometimes, they tried to catch me, the new one, eyes widened, bewildered, but I have no form, no face, merely an idea fattening from each nodding head, on glances, on shared thoughts. I am the cold draft on the nape of the neck. I am the subtle shift, the distance, the silence. I am the story everyone knows. And I grow to become the established truth.

Reviews

[JessyJacob]

Hi Jacey,
You shared nice lines, after reading through my mind is relaxed everything in place, no worry but just wanted to see my son and wait for, but I still feel life to lead but my soul is not desirous but just be with myself feeling my everything and myself..I am not worried I will see you or not but you will be seen...

[Jacey Beronio]

such a poetic response, thank you for your kind words

[JessyJacob]

Thank you for your reply. I know when you hear with heart you see poetic rhythm in ladies singing song in villages with hay on their hand as they in fields...
A song for you.
https://youtu.be/1TYLdhhiNTU?si=_OTTCUmsz-986H82

[JessyJacob]

Not handling it's typo head ..

[JessyJacob]

Again not hand sorry

[Neha agrawal]

The progression from whisper to “established truth” is seamless and poetic. It lingers like a secret someone almost told. Stunning work.

[Jacey Beronio]

Thank you for your kind words! I appreciated!

[John the Baptist]

Very clever and insightful piece here illustrating the birth and growth of a rumor from whisper to "established truth." This should be mandatory reading for all conspiracy theorists.

[Jacey Beronio]

Thank you! You are so kind.