The Melody of Life
Location
The long-awaited sensation of feeling alive
Takes over like a wave
Blown ashore by ravishing storms
Calmed at last at the dusk of the hour
When silence becomes dead
When the background music drifts below
Balancing my feet upon the air
Teaching me to fly
Surface stretching from my eyes
I float above
And I am new
The background steps forward
Like a movie stepped out of screen
Notes rising and falling
Crescendos like a tongue
Reaching out to lick the face of the sky
Becoming my own sensation
Taste the sweetness of the blue
The salty clouds
And the bitter winds
A concoction of strings
Air painted silver
Symphony of crimson, matching the autumn’s snow
Golden notes plucked from the fingers of God
Ringing out
Bells hidden in the keys
of white and black
Bringing color to the dark
Light into the night
Stars falling upon my face
Burning with delight
Right before the crash
The final note that fades away
Lingering for a moment in memory
Fragile, begging not to be broken
Yet the breath cannot sustain
And it disappears into nothing
But reality