When Silence Wept
I walked with Mozart,
and he whispered,
“The Magic Flute will be my final prayer.”
Its light pierced the tender chamber of my heart,
and I wept.
I stood beside Beethoven,
his hand trembling in mine,
and he placed upon my soul
a chorus that rose beyond time itself—
each note a cry of eternity,
each harmony a tear reborn.
In the dreamland I found Bach,
the eternal architect of sound.
I said to him:
“You are the cathedral-builder of music,
stone by stone of melody and fire.
Your spirit still kneels within us,
woven into every prayer of sound.”
Chopin’s nocturnes touched the air,
fragile as moonlight on broken glass,
and I was lifted from the weight of sorrow,
healed by beauty too delicate to name.
Vivaldi unfurled his seasons before me,
a circle without end.
I was bound forever—
a prisoner of strings
who rejoiced in the chains of music.
When my mother played Tchaikovsky,
I whispered,
“What visions stormed your soul,
what fire burned through your pen,
to bring such wonder into the world?”
I spoke with Schumann:
“Your concerto will breathe
into countless souls
long after silence has devoured us.
You have made sorrow eternal—
and thus, divine.”
And in twilight, Wagner asked me:
“Do you love my work?”
I bowed and answered:
“I love all composers,
for in their voices lives the world.
Yet your fire burns like a secret sun,
a flame that no silence can quench.”
And so it was—
when silence wept,
music became our prayer,
our confession,
our everlasting breath.
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