Abandoned Piano in a Forgotten Wood

Alone in a small house outside of town lived a woman whose few possessions included an old upright piano

Its keys were worn and its wooden frame bore the markings of a lifetimes worth of being played being moved and being played some m

On it the woman composed beautiful haunting pieces and played them everyday

But it was music that only she heard as her children were all grown and her husband had passed on long ago

Each melody told a story of love but also of loneliness and of the unspoken language that only music can convey

Years went by and the women slowly grew older

One evening as she played she felt a stirring deep inside her

Slowly she laid her head down on the pianos dark wooden surface took a slow breath and breathed no more

She was discovered the next day and arrangements were made to remove her from the house to be buried

The old house was torn down and the piano was moved out into the garden exposing it to the elements

It sat on the land its keys silent its strings untouched there on the outside of town

And as the seasons came and went the once well tended garden transformed into a wild swampy wood

One night in the silence of the overgrown swamp when an unusually blue moon cast its gentle glow on the forgotten instrument somet

The piano devoid of human touch began to play itself its keys moving gracefully perfectly producing the hauntingly beautiful music

But there was no audience to hear the melancholia that echoed through the night so the piano played for the trees the frogs and th

The music was a lament a suite of longing and isolation that only the abandoned woodlands could fully understand

Night after night the old piano plays its sad and beautiful melodies

Weaving them into the fabric of the forgotten landscape

Becoming a part of it there in the heart of the abandoned wood