Beating Drum

Music plays inside my head;
spinning round and round.
Notes escaping through my skin
and falling to the ground.

A paper's placed beneath my feet
in attempt to catch the sound,
but failure seems the case instead;
I hear the music drown.

The notes, they crumble as they fall
and they fall away from me.
I try to engrave them in my mind,
but I lose the melody.

A sadness of reality
engulfs all I've become.
It's impossible to capture
the sound of a beating drum.