Nocturne - Elixir, Katie Noonan, Elixir String Quartet

Listen the night is dark

Though it’s amazing how much light

Pretends otherwise, the stars could be hidden by clouds

We are alone, there is no silence

The night engages with a full choir

Of possibilities

And so it must be

I do not plan clouds to obliterate the stars

But anyone can see night is the order of the day

The business of light all around us

Cannot postpone

The eventual darkness that must be

The occurrence of sound stitches us into the solitude

Of togetherness

And so it must be

I do not plan clouds to obliterate the stars

But anyone can see night is the order of the day

And so it must be

Listen to all the music of the spheres

Grinding and dreaming of collision

And you know the ultimate of silence

Night proposes the supremacy of the sun

Even the earth believes

There is music in that