Music Like Water - Aga Zaryan

How, on a summer night

The mysterious few bird notes rise

And break against the dark and stop

And that music continues, afterward, for a long time

How you move in me until silence itself is moving

Precisely as those few notes

How they do not stop, the music like water

Finding its way

How what we begin we only think is ours

How quickly it passes form reach

Some other life throating the air

Until it is utterly lovely and changed

How what we begin we only think is ours

How quickly it passes form reach

Some other life throating the air

Until it is utterly lovely and changed

How I am changed by you and change you

How we willingly hollow our throats for the song

How the music chains us, but the song

On a summer night, how it breaks and stops

How we falter and still the notes rise beyond us

How they complete themselves in the silence

And silence completes us, simple as those few notes

That answer the dark on a summer night and fall still