Saturday, August 3, 2013

Music

By Randy Ai

Her body is a beautiful playground
A sheet of music in the wind
And a blueprint for a symphony

He who wrote this music
Must have taken pains to scribe every single note
Waiting patiently for the day
That silence would turn to sound

She is inked with the combined memory
Of our collective and ancient history
The tiny neural pathways
Giving rise to the sensation of flesh

My fingers dance across the notes
Indulging in fast staccatos, and slow arpeggios
I play entire stanzas with the fury of a genius
Pushing her harder towards a cadence

I have become both conductor and musician
Master and magician
Vying for complete command
Of the instrument of my desire

Yet despite my power, I merely interpret the music
And cannot write it
I have no input in the process of composition
That began millennia ago

At times, in the middle of the night
She teases me by calling me an aspiring composer
And informs me that I worry too much

And as she lies there breathless
With my ears placed against her chest
Listening to the tempo of her heart beat
She reminds me that there is still beauty
In playing someone else’s music –

So perfectly

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