No, that's it. I didn't intend any message, other than that words are musical outside of their meaning, and that music can be enough for me.
Meaning is great, but I can get meaning in prose. Poems have to deliver something more, so this was really an exercise to demonstrate that music without any meaning at all.
Cocteau Twins took this point a step further: their lyrics often weren't even real words, but beautiful-sounding syllables.
I included 'remorse' simply because it almost rhymes with 'worse'. The last sentence is really just an apology to the reader.
Got it. That's interesting; I'm always interested in people's theories behind what they write. I'll do another read of it with that in mind. FWIW, I did get interested in the language. But then I got caught up in trying to understand the significance of the last stanza
I do like and appreciate music in poetry, though. I always read my stuff aloud as I'm writing to hear how it sounds, even when it's free verse. I read other people's stuff aloud, too -- sometimes I catch nuances I missed.
I went through a phase where (after heavy influence from a much-admired professor), I ruthlessly removed all rhyme and meter from my poetry. It's funny -- rhymed, metered lines would spring into my head, and I'd reject them precisely because they were musical.
I now think that's silly. A couple of the things I wrote during that period actually aren't bad, IMO -- but it's certainly not because I took all the rhyme out of them!