songs that i could die to

there are certainly songs that i could die to
melodies so perfect that they command a leaving of reality
that they insist upon the inability to feel pain
that they conjure up the beauty within &
defeat all attempts by the outer world to
destroy us---
there are songs that slow down time to the point
where the enjoyment of the minutes, of the seconds
becomes possible,
as each sound, each sonorous morsel
brings with it a purity that allows the individual to interpret it in
any way that they would like &
if this could sing me into that sweetest of
silences,
i’m sure that a perfect personal kind of justice might
arise.