Sestina

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By: Rebecca Palmer

Music gives a soul

To the universe.

It connects people to

Each other, through tears

And smiles.

Each a coded message.

The message

Comes from the soul

Deriving smiles

For the universe

To hear, the message tears

At the audience. Trying, to

The best of its ability, to

transmit the message.

The ballad brings tears

To each soul

In the universe

No smiles

For smiles

 Serve to

Give the universe

A happy message

But the soul

Also contains tears

The tears

Subside as smiles

Fill the soul

to

hear the message

in a march, for all in the universe

The universe

feels the tears

of the message

for maybe a beat was missed by the players, as their smiles

felt inside, try to

still transmit to their audience's soul

The universe holds smiles

and tears that allow us to

discover our soul in each message.