Before The Music Fades

PAD Challenge day 18: For today’s prompt, write a music poem. 

 I had the pleasure of hearing the K-W symphony perform this past weekend...

Here's bit of a blurry glimpse as the musicians took their places...

(obviously no cameras allowed after it begins)

Music reminds me we are all part of a great orchestra!

Arise, the day is dawning

Time does not skip a beat

The Maestro of the morning

Unfolds a music sheet

Where notes of joy and sorrow

Compose a veiled array

As the drum roll of morrow

Becomes the break of day

Come; take your place of honor

The Leader of the band

Is a Flawless Conductor

So focus on His Hand

For we hear but a section

But He who whets the dawn

Will blend into perfection

Our noise with His baton

Hark, on the dark horizon

A prelude starts to play

Pink flush frays the plush ribbon

That held earth’s stage at bay

Then, as the curtain rises

Into the firmament

Hope, in all shapes and sizes

Picks up its instrument

Ah, soul-sacred concerto

Of both ballad and dirge

While tick-tock metes the tempo

As anthems ebb and surge

Pray  that far more than Duty

Tunes blues and serenades

So we can hear the beauty

Before the music fades

© Janet Martin

 1 Chronicles 16:23
Sing to the LORD, all the earth. Proclaim His salvation day after day.

Romans 15:11
And again, Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles; and laud him, all ye people.