Music, My Old Friend

An enduring friendship

A rich companionship

A loving relationship

A warm partnership

Every ship one can imagine

I have sailed in with you, my old friend.

A resident in my thoughts all the time

An integral part of being alive

That raised me from the bowels of my youth and continues to hold my hand on this ambiguous ride of life.

Still, I choose you.

 

Through my eyes

 You have shown me colour that is beyond the palette or the wheel

It’s even harder to confess how you truly make me feel

And maybe one day, I will.

Because of you, I go beyond the surface of communication

Not everyone can grasp what lies in the shadows of human comprehension

There, is where you’ve placed me

And in there, is where I’ll always be

 

Oh music, my old friend.

 

Through my ears I have heard you

Serenade me

 Conversate with me

Go left, right and straight with me

Scream at me

Weep with me

Sink and go deep with me

However, play on.

I am listening.

 

Through my hands

You enabled me to do more than what your absence would have

And you have held a magnitude I couldn’t even tell

You carried me every time I slipped and fell

Into the pits of emotional heaven - or hell

      Regardless, in your arms I would dwell.

And always, all is well.

 

Oh music, my old friend.

 

Through my voice

You have celebrated every single note that exists

How can one dozen become a galaxy

Variations of one person’s reality

Raising an industry that will only continue to expand

Do you understand?

The power in your hands?

 

Sometimes I come to you to when I need to vent

And other times you command my feelings without my consent

I get to choose what I want to hear

But thirty seconds in, you shift the gears

And make me feel what you want me to feel

 

Music, my old friend

 

You lie with my enemies

And yet, not a single thing can replace the ties that bind us

The blood that flows through my veins

Belongs to you and you know it.

The amount of control you have is too much. 

 

But the real truth is...

Life without you would be black and white.

And I have never existed in a world without colour.

-Lindo_H