The record was not mine

It was a piece of buried treasure,

Left behind.

I brought it up to the light,

And claimed it.

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At first I got nothing from it

It challenged me,

Reluctant to relinquish it's sweet notes

To vibrate the air once more.

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But the moment I got it to play

The music bewitched me

And held me grip in its power

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I sat for many hours

Entranced.

The notes spiralling around

Always to fall in the same place,

The cycle unbroken.

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My brain was whirring while my heart was singing

My hands found pen, paper, as though under a spell

And I sat and listened until I had it sure

The equation of the music.