Für Elise
for A.G.P. & Z.P.A.

were I able to
I'd make music
with the women in me

with the feelings in me
the conflict and harmony

were I Beethoven
I'd compose a fugue
or if I were Bach

mais je suis poet
with a pen alone
without the gift of music

except muted
like music in sonnets
by Keats or Shelly
or by Shakespeare

we are the men
afflicted with love
with words alone
to sneeze in response

I wish oftentimes
I were able to sneeze music

I'd have sneezed out
Für Elise a few times


© Obediah Michael Smith, 2010
5:52 p.m. 10.02.10