Brahms Cello Sonata #1 in E Minor

Brahms Cello Sonata #1 in # Minor
Written and Read by Eric Ashford

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Let me explain-
a cello is singing to its heart.
It is raining.
Drops of music slip into my ears
while evening pants
to be as naked as the night.
Brahms soothes my wrinkled thoughts
with a rosewood caress of shadows.
His music is late and Autumnal
but we are both
young enough to cry in the dark.
Hair plunges over strings
like a slow wave of twilight.
I have stopped being a listener
now I am the hollow space
in a deeply haunted instrument.
I am these unknown hands
feeding a wordless language
into the swan-necked throat
of silence.
I am the rain as it
meets the fading light
with the melting melodies
of mist and dusk.
My soul dwindles to a glimmer
within an ebony sonata
where love is a sound
too near to be spoken of
as other.