Beautiful Music

There’s a suffocating kind of beauty in the things that are so stunning they make your stomach ache.

A song plays

The singer breathes the lyrics in such a way that makes you feel like

You’ve been punched in the stomach.

It’s horrid.

You love it.

You listen to the words and their so tragic they take your breath away

leaving you panting and gagging and begging for more

Please

You ask yourself how one voice could be so wretched, so gorgeous

You listen and the way your body and mind react is so wrong,

so wrong

But you crave it because it’s the only thing that feels

right.

The words linger in your mind long after the music is gone, leaving nothing more than an echo.

A whisper of a voice that was barely a murmur to begin with.

Words like

poison and wine

ring through your thoughts, sending your mind spinning.

Shivers down your spine

are the white noise that completes the symphony enfolding you.

Hands shake

as you are sent into another place

another time.

A world where the sun sets amid hurricanes

and the flowers bloom throughout snowstorms.

A horrible place you refuse to enter,

one you dread leaving.

The songs that keep you up for days are the same ones that put you to sleep at night.

The melodies are so simple and peaceful,

with the meanings so dark and complex. Your mind is reeling, when all your body asks is that you

Sleep now and forever hold your peace.

Reviews

[beauitifulybroken]

Beautiful work, my friend. You are truly gifted when it comes to writing amazing heartfelt stories.

[Foster L]

Awe, that means a lot! Thank you.

[A Humble Poet]

Absolutely amazing! I have no words... ^_^

[Foster L]

Thank you! ♥

[Peter Rogerson]

A sixteen year old girl (or boy) has no right to compose such a wonderful piece of poetry with its changing rhythms and contrasting vocabulary. Lovely.

[Foster L]

Thank you Peter. :)