This little bit of jazz piano…I’m liking it. It is serenity
mixed in with the beat of a drum. Nearly effortless beauty is what I would call
it. I listen to it as I sit in this school’s band room…and when the piano and
drums stop, I hear the beauty of a solo violin; then, I am reminded of operas
and plays that I have given my attendance to. It seems to awaken old memories
that I’m not even sure if I can call mine…they just seem so old and foreign,
but they are so beautiful and lovely. I am not sure of whom these memories
originally belonged to, but I can claim them as mind for the moment.
This feeling is
just so beautiful…it is just as if I am frozen in time for one moment. It is
nothing that I can describe. And now, as it ends, I find myself leaving with
some kind of untold treasure…as if I am talking to an unsung hero of some
forgotten war. I would want to live in this moment for hundreds of years…I would
love to lay myself down in this serenity and to just stay there.
Now, I have
been drawn away from that peace. This disruption is nearly an insult to me. I
love that music…it allows me to block out the horrors of this world, and just
let myself fall away. That is my dream…that, is my paradise.
Daniel Helle, Twenty-seventh of May, Two Thousand and
Eleven.