Thursday April 28th, 2022

The exercise:

Write about: music.

2 comments:

Greg said...

I'm a little late with this, but yesterday turned out to be one of those days where there was never a lot of free time for anything. Still, I got here in the end!

Music
She pauses at the door
Where the light meets the night and the shadows
Coalesce and the doorman takes her coat
And she murmurs "Bless,"
And it's a benediction, of sorts.

"Madame Melody!" The music stops
Abruptly so she may be announced.
All heads turn and mouths fall open
And she descends the stairs, quick, quick, slow, then
She's standing by the side
Of the guest of honour for tonight.

They share a look of puzzlement and
The band starts up another cha-cha
Almost (but not quite) obscuring the moment that the fracture
Starts and divides the two.
Music sings from out the void
And Azathoth is summoned.

She pauses at the void
Where the light bleeds into night and the shadows
Roil hungrily devouring the doorman
And she murmurs "Bless,"
Because there's nothing else to do,
And then she steps on through.

Marc said...

Greg - I quite understand days like that, I assure you. So no worries at all, glad you managed to get here when you did!

The contrast between the first and last stanza is fantastic. Bravo, sir. Bravo.