Stories Are Not Songs
But songs are a musical story.
I know a difference
between telling a story
and voicing these same lyrics
of anxiety and ease,
of bearing and healing injustices,
medicine for well-earned peace.
I feel a difference
between progressive story telling,
between historically accurate autobiography,
and singing cultural passion narratives,
felt experiences,
perennial sensory moments
of nutrition and starvation,
light and dark,
health and pathology,
resilience and fragility,
privilege and responsibility,
resonance and ongoing anxiety,
harmony and yet mystery,
acceptance and hidden avoidance,
integrity, yet irritating dissonant echoes
either empowering verbs
or neither un-nouned knowns
win/lose explicating with shy win/win implications
Why grateful Yes!
suggests, more hesitantly Not Not Yet?
Being, yet still becoming
Left with indigenously
endemically
regeneratively curious Right
earned ease.
Copyright © Gerald Dillenbeck | Year Posted 2019
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