Challenge
Challenge of the Week LXXX
“Without music, life would be a mistake” - Friedrich Nietzsche. “Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.” - Plato. “Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.” - Ludwig van Beethoven. Write about music or musicians. Write music, or in music.
Cessation
I hold the jagged edges
of life in bleeding hands,
I step into endless
dance with you, but
music has died down,
leaving sliced thoughts
that cannot heal,
missing puzzle pieces,
space left unfilled.
Holding flames
of the past within
my soul, I become
daughter of the sun.
Now, I can’t move on -
I just am,
without substance,
ripped stitches of the past.
I can’t go forward
without erasing what was.
I try to rent my skin
so there will be a place
life hasn't touched.
What’s inside of me,
I cannot hear.
My music
has ceased
and there is
no sound.
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