Grief:
music
you cannot turn down,
backdrop
of daily performance,
its volume surging
now and then but
always there, mostly
unwelcome
except
when it aligns with
a joyful or loving moment
recalled
and it becomes,
for a second,
a dance.
One day, you will find that
without notice
it will shift from
mostly dirge
to occasional bebop to
a bright skirling
festival song
ringing far off
in a soft
shadow out in
your outskirts,
a place you no longer fear
but seldom go.