Return to Music
A return to music
BLISSFUL
I never
quite learned
CONTEMPTUOUS
Once
began
DISMISSIVE
A note here
A note there
INADEQUATE
RIDICULED
Childhood days
Disappeared
Without ever
learning
chords
RIDICULED
DISILLUSIONED
PERPLEXED
EMBARRASSED
The idea, the dream
HOPEFUL
Always lingering its radiance there
STUBBORN
Carried
from this place
To that
DISMAYED
RUSHED
Rehomed.
BETRAYED
Settled
APATHETIC
Specialized
movers
JUDGMENTAL
Retuned
NUMB
INDIGNANT
Of all the things in my life
ASHAMED
To quit on music
WITHDRAWN
You
are what has kept me….
INSPIRED
I
EAGER
Have
PROVOKED
Survived
COURAGEOUS
I sit with you now
APPREHENSION
My childhood friend
ENDEARING
Never has it bothered me
Your few missing keys
I too have lost a few
In my life
As well as my dreams
INSIGNIFICANT
SENSITIVE
ACCEPTED
ABANDONED
EXPOSED
The wax stains from years of cutting corners
Trying to sustain a song without ever learning
FRAGILE
POWERLESS
Now I see you
REMORSEFUL
I feel you
inside
of me
OVERWHELMED
Each beat each tune
OVERSTIMULATED
HELPLESS
AWE
PERSECUTED
The lightness of music
Quenching my Spirit
For it has been dehydrated
ABCDEFG
ABCDEFG
Living water flowing
AFFECTIONATE
beginning in the key of A
humbled
There's more to this score
The darkness in between
Must also be seen
Leaving them out would only cripple songs
HOSTILE
RESENTFUL
INFERIOR
WORTHLESS
To PLAY THE MAJOR KEYS IS
DIVINE
DESPAIR
D# Eb
ISOLATED
Who
will ever know the differences standing out
EXCLUDED
A time before
Learning was a commitment
INDIFFERENT
UNFOCUSED
I could not endure
ANNOYED
Would the time be there for me
Could I see it through
SKEPTICAL
HESITANT
A fear of finishing
A fear of doubt
Fear cripples
Disables the souls feet
From taking steps
along the dance floor
APPALLED
HORRIFIED
VIOLATED
GRIEF
VICTIMIZED
Shielded was my lifetime
I hid my music
Put it away
PRESSURED
DISRESPECTED
EMPTY
Ashamed.
GUILT
No more
Outstretched fingers
ABLE
Dancing shoes
FORGIVING
Harmonica in my pocket
VIBRANT
The song in my heart
REJUVENATED
I step out
VIVACIOUS
Breathe in deeply
UNSURE
Fully
TIMID
REASSURED
Full of breath
TICKLED
My lungs are full of breath now
PEACEFUL
A tear sings down my cheek as I recall
VALUED
And then I feel the music
Now moving my exhausted heart
ENTHUSIASM
ENCHANTED
Reenergized it beats through my fingers
WILLING
As they begin
YEARNING
Their own life saving chords
RESILIENT