Dissonant Harmony

Music: Stephen Stills (4 and 20... love the song except for last verse) 

(read poem when music starts)

Dissonant harmony

Lingering strum

Reflective memory

Of a trace

Autumn days

Lasting moon laughs

Her children dance

Her children dream

In the garden

Of silver beams

And by their dreams

Live

Sing

Devoted songs

Etched in heart

Breathe life

Into others

With merely a touch

Of grace

Long gone

But ever present

Rhythmic hand

Passes strings

Provisioned beating

For fractured heart

That played its part

And it will beat again

Love

Supposed to die

But as it never can

Remained

Lost lonely child

Searing search

Desperate dark

Reach for completing hand

For fractured hearts

That played their parts

And they will beat again

Calling life to a shadow

Frozen fast Hiroshima wall

Where a he

And a she

Dropped their masks

Revealing all

Dared

To consecrate

The consumption

By daring

To shout life

In the face

Of the fall

With a simple

Epic, tragic

Passionate, magnificent

Kiss eternal

Yet

Passion frozen

Fighting for life

Refuses cage

Refuses rage

Though it might have the right

But no rights exist

Merely the he

And the she

And

Fractured hearts

Playing parts

While they

beat

still