Love Poem: Died, the Music Within
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Written by: Michael Smith

Died, the Music Within

Strumming fingers
Tangle, crumble, wallow
To broken strides of overtures
Amid a drowning heart

Where begins a resonation
A bitter coming taste to sorrow
Reverberations escaping
Straying off and depart

Into echoes of destined hushes
Reaching out for want
Of faring morrows
And melancholy enters in, to play its part

One by one
Tear drops fall, pick and “plunk”
A melody that saturates lyrics out
“We’ve become undone”

Rupturing a soul within this now
Of unscheduled portrait hells
Where the notes themselves jump to plunge
Into realization composes songs of "killing selves"