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the spaces between
the spaces between
listen to the spaces between each musical note
time spent in restful peace waiting for the next
a progression of the unseen where spirits float
anticipate a new increase loud or circumspect
hearing the spaces between enhancing melody
creating a subtle form of jingles to symphonies
building up a quiet dream a romance of elegy
as emotions of the storms love and sympathies
to seek spaces between the sounds and silence
a rest here a stop there from a page to the ear
out of life’s cacophony controlling of violence
finding the points where heroes see their fear
praise pause or alternate among life and death
the orchestras resonate measuring the breadth