melody

Each day this song continues,
Each high note and low note
Adds to this wonderful melody.

Harmonies fade in and out,
Sometimes affecting this melody,
Sometimes affected by this melody.

Thus it has been played
So quietly for years,
Until its audience was all but deaf to it.

Then it was stressed,
Then it wanted to be heard,
But its audience heard no more.

Time had deafened its audience,
As any sound ceases to be heard
When it is present for long.

They heard it no more.
Naught but background noise...
But new audiences found it.

New audiences heard it,
New audiences wanted more,
New audiences heard it...

Why is it
That the constant sound
Should be the one never heard?