Take Refuge

take refuge in the blues when the sadness comes without permission the minor chords, the slow repetition, the cigarette voice, the dank barely lit bars & the pain drawn out through the synergy of it all. take refuge in the rock when excitement is willingly invited when the hormones race in the summer heat, the pumped up psyche of your favorite sports event, the speeding in a car down a wide open road, the thrill of the fight outside your favorite bar, the first kiss, the passion that comes with accepting nothing & delivering all that you want to yourself on your own. take refuge in the jazz when perplexed or interested in pondering, when the rhythmic beats or painful croon just won’t do, the meandering notes dancing upon the brain stem & sliding down the spine with your head buried in a book & consuming the words & images of others, all part of a bombardment of stimuli bringing only fresh spontaneity throughout. take refuge in rap & the rebellion that ensues within the mind when the heart steps along the side of the beat meshing with the metaphors painted in rhyme--- equipped with the minimalist essentials of words culminating mass illustrations giving feel to actions outside the self now brought deep within. take refuge in classical when exhausted from the day’s strain, the strings & winds may coax the veins into a calm well deserved or conversely, the tempo of the timpani, the beating of the drums & shrills of the higher octaves will shock us alert to the day’s needs like sunlight baring down in one’s face--- either way, the whole room is filled with an eruption of sound.