The sound of love and sorrow

Lifes background of elevator music
motion without emotion
steady humdrum of normalcy
plays uninspiring.

With him,
life suddenly burst
into an orchestral suite
combining of multiple instruments
in perfectly balanced blending symmetry,
an enchanting ethereal symphony

Warm summer nights spent
with an evanescence
of the beat of bring me to life passion
which fades to the celestial
lilting lingering flute
leading in the dawn

The cancer came
steady declining cessation of sound,
in the solemn 90 day requiem,
the taps of a love,
a life,
barren silence,
of the last breath,
ceasing.

The echoes of noiselessness
gathering force, oozed into
the wail of the bagpipe
its mournful drone
as the falling tears
set cadence

With a crescendo
discordant, angry
metallic coursing tempo,
willing contraction of the
hard rock of my heart,
demanding intake of breath,
the volume drowning out
the silent screams
of longing.