The silent instrumental

a lament of inward instruments

the slow beat of past beasts and

foreword to empty space of

future's haste and hesitation 

dedication to the sound 

and silence ungrounded 

inaction for a fraction of the

time it took to be swept up

in your full orchestral song

here I belong eternal yet

I still sway to silence's 

tight grip inadequate 

thoughts rip and reel

to the nothing music