by Judy Furniss

Created on: December 16, 2009   Last Updated: January 25, 2010

The Broken Piano

From a place beyond understanding

a Piano beckons

and a child begins to play.

They become as one

The child’s extraordinary gift

inhibits his connection

to the veracity of life

As he grows

agitation overwhelms him

The world is not his friend.

His only fulfillment,

only sense of joy

comes from the Piano.

Like a vapor, time passes …

Years of dust resides inside the worn out Piano

It no longer recognizes the man’s touch

and refuses to sound when felt-covered hammers strike its strings

Yet twisted arthritic hands continue to chord the chipped ivory keys.

The old man is now deaf

Cobwebs reside inside his head

Finally …

With a broken spirit

The gifted man gives up all sense of emotion

and succumbs to the silence.

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