Creature from collective

Sometimes an "Aye!"
That "Yes" becomes a crumbling veil for the great roar of
"I!"
-as in "it is I!"
an enormous entity ascends by way of consent-
-its first word spoken clearly, selfish, and loud.

Her manner

Low tone soft voice
sympathy for the pain
of how each voice hurts him-
breaks the spreading stillness
raging ocean settling into water smooth as glass
the stillness of the final wave gaining ground
the reversal of a pebble dropped into a vast still lake