Music Boxes

Lets make boxes for music,
the glazed polished kind.
 that ballerina
perfection captured in static
dolled in shimmer
painted in gloss
are you happy now?
Forever box this music
it will play on and on
the same happy  notes
till they seem static
would you be lulled now?

What stands on toes will fall
if taken out of the box
the arabesque in refrain
is as much a contained pain
as the beauty it exudes,
only the prelude.
out of your boxes
all music does conclude
and is filled with requiems
You can not keep joy
in a box.
'happy' never tastes the same.