up in the air
heart blighted by wings,
each note picked
sends shudders,
listening absorbing
finding notes,
while putting pen to paper,
lyrics at once
strange formed on white,
in his mind a pattern
of mismatch shapes
clumped together
ill fitting,
the sound became jagged,
heart swooped and dived
plunging to icy ocean,
she had not been at
the forefront of his mind,
hidden at the back
yet now needed to write
about her,
wrap her in lyrics
tatooing her flesh in words
that had meaning,
thumb and fingers
move over strings,
a stranger pain appeared
no respite
allegro
breath quotations
tear at corner of eye
string snapped
lurched into a silence
that now could not be filled
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