Unplugged

I've always loved music. ANd I love elements of jsut about every genre I've come across.

Thump, thump, thump, thump

The beat is strong

 I can feel it loud and clear

Pulsing, beating, beckoning

 

My feet move in a rhythmic cadence

one in front of the other.

Headphones in, head down

Peripheral full of things not quite seen

 

Faces blending,

 foliage dangling

Growing, blowing

 from the breath of the passing cars

 

A million songs

 pass through these ears

each with a different

point of view

 

The voices fade

in and out

sometimes they're words

others just an added instrument to the fray

 

Willie sang troubles

The Wilsons about cars, girls, and surfboards

Mr. Barrett was fucked up

from the get-go

 

I hear you Marshall Mathers

and Mr. McRae

And you too Maynard.

Lester Flatt just came to join in too.

 

All of them wondrous

Playing individually

Or all in unison

Like a great Symphony of genres

 

They come through my headphones

Deliberately poisoning

Promises of euphoria

met with a hearty hello and a hug 

 

Embracing the music

something I've always treasured

feel it...

 live it...

 

open your mind to every beat

every rhythm

don't discriminate

because of your predisposition to dislike

 

Louder LOUDER

FASTER slower

It almost hurts

but I can't seem to pull the headphones from my ears

 

Happiness, pure joy!

Sadness, oh what despair!

Wrapped up and compiled

as a package on this little device

 

But alas

I must "turn it off" for now

Work to do

People to please

 

I can't find the device

I NEED TO TURN IT OFF!!

Follow the wires

from my ears

 

Slowly steadily

make my way

to the source

of all these wonderful bars

 

Found the end

give a quick tug

 

OUCH!!!

 

There is no device.

Just a wire coming from my chest

With old dressings

 which need to be changed

 

I can only grin

as I realize

I can never unplug

Music is in me.