Pale tones of silver and grey blur the horizon. The cool water emits sparkling hues of wood brown. Like white maggots do the objects of man embrace the sea; precariously bobbing, indifferent to life. Glassy orbs, their lifeless gaze facing the abyss. Just as tiny soap bubbles hang suspended in gel.
Piercing shrieks fall victim to thick smog, unable to permeate mirrored reflections everlasting. Of horned devils and deadened eyes, peering through glossy pages. Memory of fish, priority of ant. Worries of sand. Of Agent Orange and precious blood, spilled in vain. Suffocating the nostrils, choking the throat. Constricting the chest, poisoning the heart.
Yet take solace in the smiling eyes of Mozart. The kind, humble lips to man. You are suddenly content with your seemingly menial existence in an ever expanding, ever changing universe. Your point of stillness emerges from neat lines of ink. Dripping from parchment the way a tear drips from the eye.
Hot butter glistens on wooden spoons, calmly dripping, aided by gravity. The spoons are refined; smooth and comforting to the touch. Age exposed not by its quality but of tender hands, warm and knowing. Plump, scented lips, laced with bittersweet chocolate and F minor melodies, its opposing dominant raw and stark, but forgiving.
A surge of warmth floods to your heart, accepting of fate, of death, and mortality, as you are consumed into the depths of nothingness. Tears of joy rush with heaving gasps, as the heart pounds for yearning and longing, for closure as beautiful as the silence that enshroud the ears of Beethoven. Closure as beautiful as the heavenly light that seeps from the eyes of God, unknowingly befalling the ears of man.
Premise
This piece conveys the ability of music to ease suffering and allow us to accept the ultimate inevitability of death.
Paragraph 1 – Addresses the destruction and erosion of the environment.
Paragraph 2 – Conveys the alarming juxtaposition between materialistic obsession with celebrities as they ‘peer through glossy pages’ with the suffering of innocent civilians caught up in war and violence.
Paragraph 3 – Communicates the ability of Mozart’s music and music in general to allow us to be content with the inevitabilities of life, and to ease spiritual pain.
Paragraph 4 – Connected to paragraph 3 with the imagery of ‘dripping.’ An example of such contentedness in life.
Paragraph 5 – Connected to paragraph 4 with the imagery of ‘warmth.’ A reprisal of paragraph 3 as the climax of the piece is reached, with a final reference to music and its ability to bring closure.
Liz and Tash 