I Write In 2020

24 Syllable Poem Contest:
New Prompt: Score
Deadline 4 PM WDC Time Wednesday 9/3 - I believe this is Thursday.
** Don't forget your entry must be exactly 20 syllables this week!

Score - definition: noun and verb -
Noun:
1. the number of points, goals, runs, etc. achieved in a game or by a team or an individual.
2. a group or set of twenty or about twenty.
"a score of men lost their lives in the battle"
Verb
1. gain (a point, goal, run, etc.) in a competitive game.
2. orchestrate or arrange (a piece of music), typically for a specified instrument or instruments.
"the Quartet Suite was scored for flute, violin, viola da gamba, and continuo"

First attempt:

Music was scored
to elevate our senses,
soothe the savage force
within us all.