human noise

they are gone, the big black bumble bees.  i liked their hum, their base, it was comforting in the way sighing is comforting or fingering the rosary is comforting or listening to mother's heartbeat is comforting.  but there are human noises now.  and they are cacophonous.  there is a difference between human-made noise and the sounds of everything else natural.  the sounds of nature meld nicely with one another, the waves rumble and the bees buzz and the birds chirp.  there is no need to take over, no need to negate the other.  but human noise--the sound of a car door slamming, the alarm beep of a unlocking vehicle, the ting-ting of an aluminum can hitting the side of a metal trash barrel--takes over everything.  it's sharp and loud and demands precedence.  it's deafening.