I Am The Song

If you will not try, you will go to your grave with your song still inside you. - Thoreau

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faroff

from everywhere and nowhere

when i awakened from a deep sleep

through the window of my soul

i thought i heard music this morning

i couldn't have been wrong

through shame

through tears

through all of these dark years

through pain

through the rain that stained

in all that i claim

the melody is in me

it has been all along

i am the song

Author's Note

"Was awakened in the night to a strain of music dying away, - passing travellers singing. My being was so expanded and infinitely and divinely related for a brief season that I saw how unexhausted, how almost wholly unimproved, was man's capacity for a divine life. When I remembered what a narrow and finite life I should anon awake to!" - Thoreau

Reviews

[lightsong]

OH MY GOD! I will steal this one ALL!! literally my real name means a little beautiful "SONG". I told You many many times how your brilliance AMAZE ME Pete! we are a song, a song that should flows with harmony, with tune to life, to love, to the divine... in all the pains, happiness, joy or sadness. just let the melody be free and beautiful...

[Pete]

thank you. i don't know why it is so hard for me to just be and for that song to just play as it will. it is always there, we just have to keep letting it out i guess ... :)

[lightsong]

"it is so hard for me to just be and for that song to just play as it will"?! Pete! in each poem of yours YOU do it! and AMAZINGLY SO!

[Sami Khalil]

Oh, how lovely this poem is! It is permeating to the soul, to the depths of ourselves. I can't fathom life without music, without songs. We should be in tune, not tuned out and deaf. Excellent, sir Pete.

[Pete]

there is so much contained in humanity's song. thank heaven for the music makers and thank you sami ... :)

[Sami Khalil]

Wow! So true and well stated. You are welcome, Pete.