ImprovFifty Day 11, ‘We Have Not Long to Love’

“We do not have long to love,
Light does not stay,
The tender things are those,
we fold away.
Coarse fabrics are the ones
for common wear.
In silence I have watched you
comb your hair.
Intimate the silence,
dim and warm.
I could but did not, reach
to touch your arm.
I could, but do not, break,
that which is still.
(Almost the faintest whisper
would be shrill.)
So moments pass as though
they wished to stay,
We have not long to love.
A night, a day…”
Tennessee Williams
ImprovFifty was a project initiated by Edward Harris-Brown, where he recorded a new improvisation every day for 50 days in a row, with the idea of improving his improvisational fluency over that time.
Recorded at Royal Academy of Music, London