Gagaku

Japanese Court music creating atmosphere 

environment, world, society

of beauty precision danger impermanence 

ancient timelessness into the present palpable 

immediate nowness so you can taste it

with your ears

as if you could see a thousand years in sound

cherry blossoms falling

a gentle spring rain

eating gyoza and drinking sake

silent, in appreciation, with a companion 

that truly shares the meaning,

until the moment when 

you must open the sliding door, go outside

draw your odachi

and blood flows.