Far Away

- sbh

Some child, behind a whisper

does live for music

Longs

To hear shimmering tones

Melody, high, low, violin – Ashokan Waltz, Take Me Out to the Ballgame, Mozart

The sweet playing of one so young so as to set you heart weeping joyfully

To be touched again by the sweet angry eyes of another child’s longing to feel present

Who begs love because he does not know he is already

To be held with loving grace, the large long fingered hands, 6 feet tall, enwrapped

Some child, behind a whisper does live for music

A child hidden

Masked through firm hand, strong tiny form who dances with headphones mile upon mile upon mile

Young woman’s face

Enshrouded with wisps of silver, white, brown, black hair

The directional lines of The Prophet’s ‘seasonless’ world mapped deep, directional

cause, effect across her cheeks

Some child, behind the voice of conviction

Facts, diagrams, judgments

Saved by music

This child does live for music

Longing to be sung through aged lips