Crescendo

Theresa Jo Horton
1 min readApr 26, 2022
Photo by Karen Chew on Unsplash

Silence in this moment but you can hear the gentle waves touch the shore

If you stop and allow your mind to breathe and your soul to hear.

Softly the music begins, stanza upon stanza, growing in force

Racing through you lifting each vibrant part of you

Into a swirl of melody that whips around you with the energy of a gale wind.

Every breath that leaves your mouth… sets you free,

The tremendous power pounding deep in that part of you

That stirs the deepest passion and charges you with desire.

Beat upon beat, you rise, the very essence of you blown

As the petals of a delicate, fragrant hyacinth from an Unseen hand

Across the vast nether of fathomless possibilities.

Every note, like the atoms that combine to give you form,

Dispenses in a catastrophic collision of all expression

And all that holds the courage and balance to exist.

Then, in that fragile moment when timeless debris rains hot

Over what was once you,

Like thread, it weaves together, building you up,

Leaving you with the exhilaration that completes you

And promises to begin again.

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Theresa Jo Horton

Theresa was born in Lincoln, Nebraska. She graduated from the University of Nebraska with a BA in English.