Thank You For the Music

Thank You for the Music Companions on my journey Surround me in anthems - When the dawn rises up, In afternoons of reflection, In slumber’s reveries - Melodies Always embracing me Asking only breath In canticles and choruses – Paeans and in psalms – Rhythms and in rhymes - Written on the staff of life Remembering remorse In slowly marching meter Uplifting shame In the verses of vocal symphonies Healing regret In ballads of blues Shouting celebration In cadence of joyful jubilees; A wondrous gift – a blessing evolving - A marvelous thing –no toy - That gathers together Wandering questions Shouted into Heaven’s ears When the spinning world would Crawl all over itself Losing its pitch Or bounce off walls In atonal discord; Welcoming back hearts To beat as one in time; My theme song never stilled When vocal nodes Stilled my song to a whisper; Gratitude, my refrain, For music, Life giving as caressing rains, To chant, once more, in harmony With the vital flame 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.