Moonlight Sonata

My heart and this piano become sonorous,

soothing to the soul yet painfully true.

The pressure I apply to the white, glossy

piano keys reaps the sorrows of a distant past,

of pilfered time.

Morbid I feel showered by moonbeam chagrins.

The notes mellifluous, a masterpiece of

Beethoven's song, are played with dexterity.

Into the fathomless sorrows of my essence,

nothing flourishes more than bloody, thorned

roses glistening frostily underneath a decaying

and waning moon.

Beautiful, however fragile in short-lived existence,

juxtaposed, crammed, in a sea of florid sceneries.

Slowly pitiable they wilt shriveling up in despair

gravid in tumultuous foreboding.

Never can it be a glassy forever.

A dreamy moonscape visualizes

in the clouded, rational mind.

Sacred and holy is the psyche

where I gravitate towards the Moon's pull.

O dear Luna, carry up my song.  Elevate it.

Amplify its bittersweet tones to the world

outside these four walls that trigger

my own heart ache...

an impetus to misunderstood sadness.

Author's Notes/Comments: 

I was listening to classical music (Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata") last night and I thought up a poem to describe the melancholic music and put it on paper...  It's not that great but enjoy!

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