LET NOTHING BE LOST

Only the first violin
which had just played
the Thais Meditation
of Massenet's opera
was forgotten
in the concert hall
as France was occupied
invaded and her identity
taken away
and the violinist knew
his time was over
but no location
opened or closed
in any nation
for his application
to join an orchestra
anywhere
and a prayer
was his only option
so he began an elegy
of his own music
in the form of a sonata
with his own composition
covered with cadenza's notes
under his sunglasses
as the violin was taken away
by an opera patron
and sold to a pawnbroker
and lost in the dark night
as the violinist hid himself
in the attic of a writer
his pianist accompanist
who saved him from trouble
until she found
the lonely violin
and paid the undersold
from his gold watch
after the war in Berlin
writing a critical book
on his music themed hymn
in a holocaust opera in German
that only his love saved her
during the war
for nothing is ever lost
even the words of a poet
between day, sun and sky
in memory's exhaustion
from a searchlight
of a boundless spirit
to being double crossed.