music and vision

 sounds matter but true meaning's in the eye

where what we note of colour size or shape

becomes the means by which honest escape

from what is known and what we can descry

by normal means will happen by and by

for each of us the record on the tape

is not the whole we're not out of the scrape

just when we we think the story has to die

so let the note be sounded once for all

while the conductor smiles at his good task

for we have taken on the cloak of grace

by overcoming each pain of the fall

from mortal height to these shores where we bask

in warmth and joy beyond the cold embrace