The Time of Music

How many poets must die,
        love(?)
    before we're the ones
    to die in their graves?

When life can be
   as brief as a song:
        below, touch the heart of Music;
        and above, Music will turn you
        into a million fragments
           of time
        across different lives.

What is its life
    but a million times,
    below—the Earth, its pulse.
What is its time?
    but a million lives,
    above—the soul, its god.

Listen to its symphony,
    its days and nights,
    and you will be
    in every one of them;
    compose them,
    and you will possess
    its time and life.

What's the myth of music
    but to break the sky of time
    and let all eternity fall through itself
            —if every story’s heart
            can become the heart of music,
            every story can be eternal.

But, how many poets must die,
        my love?
    And what's dead
    if we touch every sky?
The Time of Music ·