The Music Box

Soft, melodious music, playing,

Millions of memories, flowing,

A thousand voices, whispering,

A hundred events, reoccurring.

Fragile, glass figures, turning,

Twisting, twirling, spinning, dancing.

Slowly, spinning the silver web,

The memories keep winding, replaying.

Fragile, glass figures, looking,

Watching, staring, gazing intently.

Entranced by the dance,

Entangled in the web.

Trapped in the web of memories,

The dancer spins it tighter,

Tighter, tighter, until it breaks.

Snapping, breaking, unwinding, unravelling.

Music playing, ceasing, stopping,

One small, music box,

One million, thousand memories,

Slowly, slowly, slowly, fading.