175: Uncovering The Blues

Blues isn’t just music
it’s an outpouring of anguish deep within your soul.
I can no longer listen
I know this now for sure.

All music is powerfully expressing
The attitude at your core
This sound wave jars most painfully
With the joyful rhythms of my heart.

My soul just wants to dance
But this mournful
Not quite pentatonic key
Won’t allow my legs the chance.

I will not compromise my level of vibration
By choosing this again
The experiment is over
Time hasn’t changed a thing.

I thought perhaps with sparkling company
I could replace those troubled memory vibes
That by laughing and loving in that place
I could move on from those negative emotional ties.

Thought I could appreciate the blues
Without the distraction of that aggravated man
But discovered something greater
Blues music, knew that fan.

That pain deep within his soul

Was the reason he was there
And the reason I couldn’t stay
Was floating melancholic in the air.

To truly love the blues
It must speak to the essence of who you are
Of being incomplete
Of anguish, loss and deeply hidden scars.

I am grateful for this understanding
For the illumination of this fact
I could never love a blues man
Because my heart is still intact.

Lady Satellite

45: Lost in Music

Eyes closed, lost in time and space

Joined in union with my sax

I become the instrument

The music is who I am

Transported to another place

We begin to jam.

Rhythm flows and takes me over

I am lost and found at once

This vibration is my saviour

Its meaning is my life

When I play, I am complete

I am connected and alive.

There are no words can convey

How it feels to be so transported

Walls recede, my mind expands

The universe comes rushing in

Life is lived at my finger tips

Let the journey begin

Where you take me I care not

The pleasure is in letting go.

Lady Satellite

This piece was written in response to a photograph I was given for a 20 minute writing exercise. I love discovering what can be created in this way.