Love's Symphony

Shimmering whispers urge forth
a beginning seeks release from darkness
the voicing of struggle proclaims arrival
like miniature cymbals of heroic announcement
the cries of emergence clash with air and space
once portending grace
now a melody's genesis

The matrix of parent/conductor
anxiously hum nursery rhymes
through white enameled side-rails
vertical portals to unfettered ears
absorbing even when sleeping
evolving into passion's invitation

The precious first movements
grow from those one-finger dissonant phrases
sometimes pounded upon the black and white landscape
merging a piccolo's infant smile
with paternal contra bass and cello echoes of the maternal

Remembrances of tinkling keys
soon enjoin its pure and simple
with conflicted movements of trial and error
the inevitable adagio of growing up

Hence forth
the scherzo's innocence of adolescence
crescendos into threatening measures
where layered tones of choices
present challenge
chaos
counterpoint of independence
or sympatric harmony

The family of voicing
developing love's thematic material
rhythms
keys
and more complex harmonies
create the free fantasia
a coalescing of passion's varied workouts

Arriving at life's movement of peace
that place of elderly consonance
its strings worn thin
the weight of its chambered containment
housing now but the waning echo of a baby's chorus
rests forth its closing bars

Its shimmering whispers
float one last wave of the baton
stirring life's ethereal essence
into heroic higher bonding