I Used To be Passionate

to the point of being undiscerning about music.
That what I heard was always recorded didn't matter.
Being part of a paying audience for a band
that performed live simply never happened.

Now I am in retreat from music,
both recorded and live, and I often prefer quiet.
I don't even want to be an audience for a busker.
 
In the evening of my life 

I find that the gloaming chorus
of frogs and ducks and other wildlife
share the most transporting tunes.