Love Sonata

Love Sonata in Red

2/12/13

by Casie Luong

I. Andante

Is this really about us? You? Me?

How much am I worth?

How much do you see?

How much do I want?

How much do you need?

A stamp to my forehead,

We passed with flying colors of red,

superior markings of errors and praise.

Validation meets Satisfaction.

A matrimonial union is made.

II. Allegretto dolce

I have a name and you said it.

I have a heart and you bear it.

I have arms that make you fall deeper than the floor.

I have lines and sing-song melodies that float upward outlining birds in the sky.

Hi-hi, hey-hey

Hum-da-dum

Hi-hi, Ha-hey, ha-hey

You have a freckle and I pinch it.

You wince but I like it.

You have eyes that send me through the ceiling,

Sighing and singing, fluttering and feeling,

Hi-hi, hey-hey

Hum-da-hum

Hi-hi, Ha-hey, ha-hey

III. Lento assai solenne

Trenches darkened trenches masqueraded by flowered feelings.

A celebration or a time of mourning?

Either way, he’s left or she’s left yearning.

Luminous, ominous doubting.

Does he love me? Do I love him?

Carnivorous questions eating through my skin,

pushing through to make a home in my chambers,

the deepest parts of me

and

I. cave. in.

I fear in loss.

Holes and emptiness hang like moss,

An abandoned ravine that once had youth and possibilities.

Love, where are your markings of errors and praise?

I’ve lost my name, my sing-song phrase, phrase, phrase.

IV. Allegro con bravura

When a storm has passed,

morning birds, remind us to wake again.

To us, you, me, quiet, talkative, bashful he and she,

forgetting the wants and forgetting the needs,

abandoning taking and learning to give.

The winds die down and up we fly on a sing-song high,

rapidly boasting our colors melding in the sky:

pinks, reds, blues, yellow, greens, oranges and white,

The deepest night of darkness is behind.

Yes--the Deepest Night of Darkness is Behind.

Let us stamp the ground!

Stamp hard into the ground:

Mistakes, Misery, Misfortune and brothers of the same sound.

Let us seize the light of day!

Make new what was made!

Morning birds, remind us to wake again!

Yes, remind us to wake again!