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Without Music

If music is muted from the world

How can we glorify heaven

Bereft of enlivening hymns

Unite hearts of people

Lacking the heartening anthem

Commence a wedding

Without an elegant tune

Celebrate birthdays

Short of happy songs

Life devoid of music is

A drab spring field

No flowers to adorn it

A quiet vernal season

Birds cease to tweet

A night sky without moon or stars

Leaving nothing to mesmerize

When music dies in the heart

Dances lose tempos

Poems miss rhythms

Love lacks romance

Despair cannot find solace

Solitude turns into loneliness

By Shih-Fang Wang

From: United States