Poetry

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A mortally contended game of musical rooms-dj eckert

Glorious MUSIC drifts along life's beach
like a
topsy- turvy
haunting Siren.

It Quietly BLARES and echoes throughout
my sandcastle's
vulnerable
environ.

I explore my castle's many,many
intriguing and enchanting rooms...
With a youthful exuberance
blindly bawking
at beach-built
tidal doom.

When I stop in the hallway to listen...
that Siren, it groans
into a louder wail,
and all those rooms that I wander through, begin to feel
like empty
hungry
jails.

But ,
the music plays on!

Is this hallway music that I hearken,
merely " the common to the whole
house rules " ,
that old Jack Lewis talked about
in one of his literary jewels?

I bounce from
room to room,
ignoring those
ever present "rules", riskily consorting
and dancing with heathens,
fiends and fools.

But ,
the music plays on!

Quite hopeful
that behind one of these doors,
I will find "my OWN handel to my OWN Messiah",
I go into
another room
to privately dance
with more
of my OWN
pariahs

But ,
the music plays on!

I stand with my hand on the doorhandle
of another potentially enthralling room.... closing my eyes
and seeing
the Conductor
swing His baton
to the current enrapturing tune.

I'll continue to gird my castle though,
against the coming shifting sands,
by covering up my convicted years and ears
with the pailed,
stacked up works
of my salty, gritty
vain filled
hands.

But,
the music plays on!

I know that the tide is not coming
for what I think is several more good hours,
so through all these rooms , MY will...
it WILL... attempt
to uncover
search and scour.

But,
the music plays on!

I know that the castle crushing current
can't come,
until that twilight
hour....

So I know
I still have some time
to enjoy more
of those
dubious roomfulls
of travails
to which I'm
mired

But ,
the music plays on!

Entering a room
filled with yet
another of those ...
tantalizing flops...
before my feet
even land upon
that shaky sandy
rug ...
Ooooh!
What's this
song I hear ?

Maybe gettin' closer to that handel, and feelin' a little smug!...,
It sounds like some ...
" ...water music ! "....

But,
the music
STOPS!.....Glug! glug!

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