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music is absent as soon as grief
proudly walks through the doors

music is lost, breaks into heavy sobs
when grief takes over any ceremony

switches off in my head
while I never turned it on 

Music is the ceremony
Grief is a mere guest

in the heaviest storm
thousands of hymns and songs take a bow, disappear solemnly

behind the curtain fall
washed hai…

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