Piano Ablaze
by Odin Roark

Piano ablaze like a melting companion,
   like liquid clocks of undulating passage atop the branches,
     stretching their forever time downward
         to shield the languid buds of Spring's rhapsody.

Will rhythms of youth
      merge with gratefulness
            upon the austerity of our symphony's last movement?

Will the luster of ebony
       illumine the memory amidst the swirling ashes
            where damper pads desperately work to protect the melodies once mine?

Will the glistening heat of completeness
       bring forth yet another incarnation of perpetual motion,
             a once calm tonality as the seedling of a measure's beginning,
                     now the climax of the ever calm,
                            the tremolo of eternal movement?
Melting pianos,
        glacial resonance,
                life with death,
                   inseparable all.