The Paint That Never Dries
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Music is a form of liquid art that, when you close your eyes,
will paint a picture in your mind with a paint that never dries.
And being that it’s liquid…music has one solitary goal
to paint all the crevices of your heart and every corner of your soul.
Each song creates a different painting with it’s first note…
it’s christening
depending on the words….
the tune…
and on the person listening.
Music can take us to a myriad of places all from the comfort of our seat
or, before we know it, can lift us up and have us dancing on our feet.
Music can make us laugh,
can make us sing…
can make us cry
sometimes it’s so magical it’s as if the notes are floating by.
Music can burn like fire…its heat hot enough to make us scream
It can flow fast and hard like a raging river…or soft and cool as a mountain stream.
Music can wrap us in a sheet of ice that we slowly chip away
or warm us like the sun peeking through the leaves in the shade of a summer day.
Music can feel like medicine…healing us when we’re sick
or it can feel like butter…like Butta!…as it spreads over us…warm and thick.
But as exquisite as is the artwork from music’s liquid composition
what makes it elegant
what makes it beautiful
are the hands of the musician.
For once they touch their instruments…
and we see that sparkle in their eyes
we know it’s time to hold on to our seats
because colors are about to fly.
Soon we find ourselves floating a sea of colors
and we smile
we close our eyes
as a picture is painted in our mind…
with a paint that never dries.
Copyright © Jim Yerman | Year Posted 2020
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