Face Music

Overhear an adolescent

Describing the art of makeup

As music you put on your face.

Now it’s in motion, isn’t it?

Tough to have music without dance,

Rhythm, some sort of changing notes.

It puts makeup into concert

With expressions and emotions

To imagine it as music.

Think of someone at their mirror

As composer at a keyboard,

Pausing, jotting another note.

Think of a street full of faces

Voicelessly singing their colors.