Fragile lives

In to your soothing hands

I offered myself,

entrusting your heart,

to beat as one with mine,

hoping the rhythm of your body,

takes me to the altissimo

and entwines me in an enharmonic interval

before the chords explode 

into earth shattering beats

sending me into rapturous rhapsodies

and the heart into deep content,

lost in your covenant to be merged

into one, and become

ethereal and eternal.

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The  percussion ceases,

even before it climaxes

the cymbals, the timpani, and the tambourine fall silent,

I watch helplessly

as the chords plummet

and fall to their deaths

a double bar silences me even before

we could

quaver and crotchet, stave and clef

the covenant shattered

the duet scattered

dreams lying in the shards

broken not by the treble

but the Judas kiss

fragile lives, with flesh and blood

lie rotting sans vehemence

and now all is still.

it is in this quietude

that I must drown

myself and

that inner voice of mine.

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Written for the prompt "Fragile lives" as a part of the Bar-A-Thon - a - week long blogging marathon for bloggers. If you'd like to participate, or read what other bloggers have to say, visit the BAR for more details.
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