Open Doors and Windows, Books and Flowers

Music: Fugue in E minor. By Dimitri Shostakovich. Sequenced by J. Marques.

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Open doors and windows, books and flowers, Newly opened gifts of minds and hearts Yearning for the emptiness of oceans On which, in love and hope, you launch your music; Undulating, searching, restless hearts Rendering your ecstasies in music, Eternal hunger sated now with flowers, Now rolling on relentlessly as oceans; Give everything away--all hopes, all music, All of yourself cast into tumbling oceans, Go naked in the silence of your hearts, Even as you blossom into flowers. Mouths cannot speak the glory of the oceans Etched against the loveliness of flowers, Nor can you know its fullness but in music Through love, which inundates your waiting hearts.