Unyielding melody

 Unyielding melody

Not finding life easy,

Not yielding to currents,

Several adjustments and few compromises,

Spirit remains strong, unmoved despite turbulence.

Vagaries, oddities, singularities,

Beethoven or Tyagaraja, I tune to what I understand,

And my trained ears,

Blurred images and slur in conversations.

Still, it is not empty or umpty dumty."