Between the Night & Its Music

--A.B. Spellman

between the night & its shadow is the music

between the music & the night is the song

between the song & the music is the voice

between the voice & the music is the self

between the self & its song is the mind

between the mind & the song is the melody

between the song & its melody is the rhythm

between the rhythm & the melody is the mind

between the mind & its song is the word

between the word & the mind is the voice

between the voice & the word is the thought

between the thought & the voice is the self

between the word & the self is the shadow

between the shadow & the self is the light

between the light & the word is the music

(the song is the melody in the word in the rhythm

the self holds the mind to the word & the thought of the song

the voice in the song sings the self to the mind

the light lights the shadow of the voice & its melody

the rhythm moves the self through the dimming night’s song

the thought in the song is of night’s shadows without music)