
Minor Keys
The music plays
harmonious and sweet
full of hope
and bright futures
and predictable progressions
the music begins
in a major key
saving its discordant notes
to jar us into confusion
after the lull of happiness
the minor keys creep in
sowing fear and sharp nerves
finding the pain inside
each body
and plucking it
until it becomes electric
a live wire
the major keys
are left behind
back in the first movement
as the music continues
through the long transitions
playing our way forward – Caroline A. Slee