Deep Notes, Quick Pace | A Poem

 

 

Deep Notes, Quick Pace

by L.M. Browning

 

 

 

The despairing beauty of the music

causes us to lament life as we live it.

 

The capture and loss of the moment

—the bittersweet quality of these fleeting days—

deepen the significance of what is felt.

 

The fragility of time

—strong one moment,

fading the next—

is the seduction

of the human experience.

 

The momentary ripeness of this flesh,

the short space of this breath,

quickly withered,

the beauty is missed

if not lived.

 

© Copyright 2012 L.M. Browning

Original Image entitled: Waves of Black Glass by L.M. Browning © Copyright 2011