Music in Me

 

These aren’t just notes that I play…

What this is, is a confluence

A meeting of music, ideas and love

The piano… a musical conduct

The keyboard… a forum for chromatic dialogue

Dialogue between ebony and ivory

Working together, labouring to produce…

Magic

When I play, I don’t just play the instrument

I gently caress the delicate keys…

Like a gentle, passionate kiss

This is love

The music and I are one

A celebration of life, melded in symphonic ecstasy

I rise above myself and look down at what I do

As though God himself, speaks to me

And in his magnificence… tells me:

“This is who you are… share your joy!

Bring forth the gift of music to the multitudes!”

I put my heart in my hands,

My fingers glide forth

I am guided by the divine rite of our creator

He, who gave me this precious gift of the pastoral,

Hewn frond the lathe of Heaven

It is a feeling of sheer happiness and joy

As I am rapt with serendipitous anticipation

A sense of invincibility permeates my cause

My corporeal being, transmuted to dramatic energy

Profound peace and inner rejuvenation…

This is what I find, when I play

Be it for myself, or for others

The feeling is the same

The music I write, is my second language

I answer to a higher authority, I’m blessed

It’s only when I play, that I feel what I was meant for

I want to share my joy, my spiritual release

For only music soothes the savage beast

These aren’t just notes that I play…

It is magic!