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As each note you play descends,

               One by one, the staircase of my mind,

                              I too am swept down, pulled along

                                             As song you seem to find

                                                            Effortlessly – floating, falling,

                                             Weightless in our air; then plucked

                              As ripe fruits from their branches,

               Clandestine, somewhere deeply-tucked

In forests dense as sound,

               Deep as bass, and dimly-lighted –

                              I wonder – In this song will I be found

                                             At last, when we are no more unrequited?



Sydney Maltese