The Fifth

Accepted by Leaves-of-Ink (2018)

 

 

Beethoven kept pounding, 

no one opened the door.

So loud, the world was deafened.

 

Mahler tried it with trumpet. 

The world echoed 

the love of adagietto, 

slowly.

 

Shostakovich buried the despair, 

stirred the agony 

underneath 

the agreeable melodies.

 

From his soul, Prokofiev craved  

a pure and genuine spirit 

to free humankind.

Victory was not a dream, 

he wished.

 

The door finally opened?

 

 

Note: Beethoven composed his fifth symphony between 1804-1808; Mahler’s fifth, 1901-1902; Shostakovich’s fifth, 1937; Prokofiev’s fifth symphony, 1944.