Thank You For the Music - Coda

Thank You for the Music - Coda Companion on my journey Abided with me In the anthems of delicate dawn - Mornings of mauve and lilac light, Octaves of afternoons in amber reflection, Serenades of slumber’s silver reveries - The melody embraced me Asking only breath For clefs of choruses – Sung like new paeans or a psalm – Scales of rhythms and in rhymes - Written with the staff of life; Remembering the reason In slowly marching meter The verses of this vocal symphony Healing, then renewing, My ballad of blues, That gathered together Quivering questions – Why?! Reverberating into Heaven’s waiting echoes When my lopsided spinning world Crawled all over itself Losing its pitch Then bounced off walls In dark descending atonal discord; Turning – then re-tuning - Shouting in the cadence of celebration A wounded gift restored – a carillon of blessing ascending - A marvelous thing –no toy – winking at me - Welcomed back my heart To beat in time - to sing with one voice My theme song never stilled When vocal nodes Stilled my song to a whisper; Gratitude, my refrain, for this music - Surrounded me - Life giving as caressing rains, Ocean waves or cricket concerts - A chant in crescendo harmony, con brio, With the eternal fire of melody again. In gratitude to Abba for their song - Thank You for the Music – My theme song that carried me through two vocal node surgeries when I thought I might never sing again