Isolation, Uncertainty, Expectation

ISOLATION, UNCERTAINTY, EXPECTATION He sent me his music composition, a solo piano piece for Isolation. I started listening with anticipation, as my mind went overdrive with imagination that transported me into different dimensions. Taking me back in time, like in the 18th century, dancing to this music, a contemporary on a huge stage with no other dancers, no audience dressed in a white below the knee dress with hair pulled up adorned with white flowers with some strands of curls draping my neck. My bare feet leaping, twirling, tip-toeing with my body expressing and my face emoting inner emotions of sadness, uncertainty, concern, faith, hope or expectation. Sadness for our pandemic situation and isolation. Uncertainty for when we can have the resolution. Concern for our loved ones and for all the nations. Faith and hope for all of us to have to be united, to give the utmost cooperation to quickly achieve our expectations of slowing this pandemic, discovering treatments and ultimately, a vaccine. Then I was taken back to the present seeing him playing his piano, playing this piece with gusto, passion, intensity how a great maestro plays dressed in plaid shirt with shades of green and peach and blue jeans. Surprisingly, I was taken into the future watching a symphony and there he is in his tuxedo, conducting this piece. It ended with thundering applause. The pianist standing and him turning and bowing to the audience, still applauding. And then I saw myself in the audience dressed in a black dress clapping, cheering him and this piano piece. The music played for eight and a half minutes leaving me more appreciative of music thinking what it can do for us and how it affects us in positive ways, especially at this current crisis. Submitted: 3/30/21 All Yours (Mar 31) Poetry Brian Strand Written: 4/2/20