If a musical score

is to come alive

to break through notations

to something that thrives,

it needs emotion

expectation

like a howling wind

that never gives in.

Of course there a gaps

between each note

yet if it were words

would it be read as flat

maybe boring,

no it would be read

to convey

what the writer

was saying.

Boulez wanted

music to come alive

that something in the background

would to those notes

breath life,

sometimes a voice

a dischordant bell

it was more than music

there was something to tell.

If you listen to that silence

between the notations

you can tap into

your deeper emotions.