I'm always braver in my dreams
'cause no one there can see the seams
the patchwork quilt that is my life
no anxious mind nor hungry strife

Venetian Gondola Song by Mendelssohn

sometimes i surprise myself
when the emotion feels so perfect
and it ebbs
and it flows

the anger
appears
from the silence
and sulks away again

when i finish my fingers
the keys
those ivory keys
they give

my breath in sharp intakes
the feeling that
some of my heart
has been
taken out of me
and put
into
sound