Can You Hear It Poem by Barry Middleton

Can you hear it in the air,
the music that is everywhere?

And did you never know
the lyric of a cloudless sky?

The resonance from every hill
awakes a sleeping daffodil.

The beat is like your heart,
for love is a musician too.

Tenderly a perfumed breeze,
a melody beneath the trees,

is wafting like desire,
the pulsing of a lover's breath.

And we may touch the rhapsody,
a sweet duet in harmony,

or we might lose the key,
the moment will not come again.

Then darkest ballads bid adieu,
the saddest sound I ever knew,

and on the final downbeat,
love dies to stark silence.