Orchestra

To calculate
the cacophony of being
would shrink the orchestra.

Music: the science of souls.
Your sound won't be rated.
It is not logic, review, word
or click-bait.

Music emanates from the skin,
though calculation may show
the room is silent.

Quantity is no measure
of what a heart can hold;
a person's ability to reach
through years and distance.

Numbers on a page
don't keep me fed; data
did not conceive me.

It is not measurement
that gave me my voice.

written in downtown Charleston,
February 4, 2018