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chanson, divorce, downbeat, keyless, lyricless, misery, modern tragedy, noteless, song, sorrow, soul sings, soundless, tuneless, upbeat, whirlwind of emotions, wounds

Alongside Babylon’s rivers
we sat on the banks; we cried and cried,
remembering the good old days in Zion.
Alongside the quaking aspens
we stacked our unplayed harps;
That’s where our captors demanded songs,
sarcastic and mocking:
“Sing us a happy Zion song!” – Psalm 137:1-3, MSG
A keyless, noteless, lyricless Chanson is known only by its Annual wedding anniversaries – Twenty-two sequential somber Returns out of fifty minus one. August thirteen’s forty-ninth Return reopens invisible chronic Wounds then heightens their pain While displacing summer nuptials’ Joy – much like how a Blues style Syncopation de-emphasizes strong Beats and accentuates weak beats. La-la stopped meaning ‘love you’ Three decades, three months after Delfonics earned a place on Soul’s International map with baby talk – A young male’s frequent utterance. Life has repositioned love’s dynamic Downbeat – relocated to an upbeat Spot known as the joke’s on me – Where misery’s stereophonic sound Drowns out all hope of loving anew. Sorrow is the song my soul has Sung each year for a score plus Two years – after my divorce, Which unleashed a whirlwind of Emotions that mark my life as a Sad survivor of a modern tragedy. - composed August 13, 2020