Music of the Medusa

 

One being, a bell with tentacles,

having already designed and imagined

all that exists, except for the best of musical sounds,

sent every tentacle to travel through space,

to travel through time, 

requesting each realm to develop their own unique sound,

asking each world to discover that single note

and keep it safe until the tentacle could return

and learn it and return to the Medusa with that sound on its tongue.

A tone to be added to a magnificent composition

so that all places might share in a great song,

enjoy divine, melodic bliss.

So having been informed of the task,

the music of the spheres began.

Each world constructed Schelling’s frozen music 

and taught the sound to their children 

so that they could connect with nature and all that she provides.

On our own world, man sang, but he found legion

and each became unknown to the others, a free will gift. 

So, in time, there was much dissonance,

too many sounds, all so different, and out of harmony.

Discord became the status quo.

But one day, Earth's tentacle will return and ask

as it was instructed, for our world to provide,

as one tongue, a single intonation

that is striking, melodious, benevolent.

For our sake, Mankind will have to find that voice together.

For at the last and at the beginning , the Medusa, 

that source of all beauty that any have ever known or dreamt of,

will combine all sounds, even it which man, as one world, composed,

and will create a symphony of the ages, which will never cease.

© Imbler, 2015