Melody and Harmony

We speak like a choir patterned
Precisely connected
Opposed to complement
In continual descents and ascents

Harmony challenges the room’s acoustics
Affecting insects and firmaments now idle
To reanimate in phony resurrections

Until the echoes made bounce back
Like abandoned ghosts sent to distract
The paths of a sonata we have woven
To cover us from hailstorms

Distant earthquakes nudge the planet
Mineral sonar deployed
To retrieve and rescue our missing otherness

The mimicry of our maker
Has led us to this ethereal beheading
Aftershock leaves our unconscious unfulfilled
Like mended leaves again dissected

As two separate reflections of one rendering
Too distinct to realize its own mockery

For we are born distinct
Instinctively like lab rats placed among
A world of dividing lines
Mathematical symbols planted like mines
To keep all adjacent things as

Greater or lesser to the thing next to it
Deep see diving for a relation that equals us
To rearrange the melody so the notes match our own

We have been led to where there are others
Like negative magnetic fields gravitating together
Increasing exponentially
Here the otherness is a cloud that straddles the entire city

We are pinned down and
Suffocated by too many equations to be made
On one sidewalk in decomposing symphonies of
Notes crowding the melody and
No order can be made to
The music in this madness

The madness of this music
A noise like an overbearing father
Making the world outside off limits

So here in the center of this plane
Are buried 8 million sides of me
Each one of them
The loneliest person in this world

The other half has
Combed the desert for a voice
Whose pitch might mix to make…

Plucking strings
Fumbling with time signatures
Listening for the right key
And in listening for a new rhythm
Found your melody
An everlasting harmony