Whatever

Inestimable grandeur

Of the sound of Mahler

Arriving

In triumphant waves of thunder

Approaching

In easy rivulets of sweetness

Merry and melancholy

Sweeping through echoing halls

Skipping

Trickling

Down dainty steps

Into ears

Smitten with

- a privileged hostage of -

Whatever comes next

To smash acoustic certainties to smithereens

With the gauche boldness

Of elegant defiance