The Clarinet
Music. It can impact people make them feel.
It has the ability to project emotion.
Though not as much as the vessel through
which it is carried.
The tones it creates makes new and interesting textures.
not ones you can feel or see, but
can hear.
These sometimes don’t have any effect
but for me they mean everything.
They make me who I am.
Because how everyone is unique
so is every instrument.
From strings to brass
percussion to woodwinds.
Each are characterized by how they sound.
Not by how they act.
When you play an instrument
the person you once were seems to disappear.
To become replaced by some entirely new
being.
One that does not care.
How they are viewed,
or of what they are to society.
Instead they become whoever they
want.
No longer confined they can finally be
free.
Able to express emotion and thought through the instrument
from slow ballads to bold marches.
They are new every single time.
For those who cannot sense this freedom
of creativity and self-expression
I feel sorry for
because they will never truly hear a freedom so sweet.