Strum

Unpremeditated music is the true gauge which measures the current of our thoughts, the very undertow of our life's stream. - Thoreau

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strap on a guitar a strum

a diatonic riff

an emotional chord

up pleasure and down pain

lonely notes falling like last night's evaporated rain

strap on a guitar and strum

pluck thin air

let down invisible hair

feel the tension of strings as faith and eternity become one

acoustic

electric

eclectic

caustic and agnostic

strap on a guitar and strum

'til the saline song is over and done

Author's Note

"Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent." - Thoreau