Words and Music Lately

 

mirage like music comes and goes

oh beautiful mirror beyond the sing along

that the heart can't help but gaze upon

but the words fail every time.

i'll go away with music then

and not with the lyrics from the same old bin

for the jeweled haze

of the music seems so beyond it all

from the words that can hardly manage a

scrawl;that could never stand on their own.

i'll go away with the music 

that refined

the after mirage and the after chime

and find the slot where my dreams have hid

and the language to live in them myself.

mary angela douglas 9 july 2022