Without The Music
Without music
Quiet has no notes to wake her up
From muffled morning’s sleepy headed slumber.
So, instead
She hangs her winsome head,
languishing in her lonely bed.
Hoping that a harp will play, or
maybe a cello will save the day.
Praying a piano quite possibly might
saunter in,
Or trumpets wake the dead
Say arise, awake
With blasts of wind
instruments, drums and snare,
Replacing thick and quiet air
Violins or soothing flute
The horns will shout forth
an exclamation point.
Breaking the blistering silence of her mind
Hoping a happy stanza
peppered with piccolo will fill the air
But instead the quiet
Lingers, hanging void
The music hidden, lost,
Is nowhere.
Life without a song
Sounds like life
Without a pulse
dull
and fallen
Silence fills the air.
Only black and white
All color gone, no song.
The music must play on.
The strings shall sing, the harmony restore
The runs, the rifts, the ivories,
The keys will sing from lips of fingertips
The music.
Melody and symphony, sharps and flats
Notes from low to high, cascading making merry in the dark
Mirroring or changing the mood within the room
Transforming quiet, into music,
Liquid poetry.
Give me a blessed song that wakes my spirit up.
Turns the sad and lonely mood around
Plays hymns of praise
My anthem raise
No longer will I live my days,
Alone in silence lingering long
Without the sounds of dancing
On clouds of spirit-thought.
Without
The music
Playing in the chambers,
The rooms of my heart.
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Joining Laura at Laura Boggess dot com for her Playdates at The Wellspring.
You too? Of course. I could relate to every beautiful word, Elizabeth. Give me music.
Oh, yes, my friend! My son keeps telling me how he needs music to wake himself up each morning–and I’m not sure that’s metaphorically. Love this:
Life without a song
Sounds like life
Without a pulse
And you know what else? I get why you left white space after the line “Life without a song.” Aren’t you so proud of me? #poetrynewbie