Music... and Me... and You

Music can make you smile
and dream
and hope.
It can make you stand "up on the roof"
and shout to the world
"I won't leave until I'm a star."
And it can cause you to sit
quietly...
and ponder
"fire and rain."

"Clown make-up"
can hide your true feelings.
And "Tapestries"
can be woven around your emotions.
Sometimes though,
"It's just my imagination"
that gets the best of me.

It's had me
"Telling it like it is"
and "goin' in circles."
Music was there
when I gave and received
"the best of my love"
and soothed me
"when you lost that lovin' feelin'."

Music,
and you...
have been "My soul and inspiration"
and have lifted me "higher and higher."
And found me more than once
"sitting on the dock of the bay."

The songs have watched me
"leaving on a jet plane"
and have seen me
"goin' out of my head,"
when I asked
"Where did our love go?"

I've taken "midnight trains to Georgia"
and spent "Rainy nights in Georgia," too.
I've walked through
"Savannah in the rain..."
and spent fun times during
"Myrtle Beach days."

There always seem to be
"raindrops fallin' on my head"
"time after time."
So many,
I felt I was "spinning wheels."
But...
because "I've got the music in me..."
I would "never wish it would rain,"
I would always think of "sunny" days instead.

It masked my tears
when I asked
"have you seen her?"
when I knew "I was made to love her."
And it helped when I begged
"Baby, I need your lovin."

And it continues
even today...
when I've asked you to
"stay in my corner..."
and "don't go... please stay..."
"stay, just a little bit longer."

Music is
"always and forever"
and will "shower the people"
with comfort and joy.
It understands when life gets "spooky"
and it knows that
I "still" believe
in what lays just
"over the rainbow..."
not just "what a fool believes."

"Time is on my side"
and so is the music...
whether I'm stuck in the sixties
with you...
or "sitting in the park"
looking for a "no tell lover"
or just "waiting for a girl like you"
to find me.

Speakers,
headphones...
or earpieces.
Cruising down "Ocean Boulevard,"
or walking "under the boardwalk"
at midnight.

If there's
"a rocknroll heaven"
or if it's just
"Sgt. Pepper's band..."
I'll be there
with you...
and the music...
"dancing the night away."

Reviews

[David O Whalen (O Haol..]

Michael, I write on poetry showcase, Poemhunter, writing.com and just lately the WritersCafe. I only mention these sites because on these sites there are very few free verse writers that are in your league. My poetry is mostly simple rhymes and only rarely do I venture into free verse. Why? Because I find it to be the hardest type of poetry to write. A few years ago when I first started to write poetry as a hobby I considered free verse to be a cop out and if a poem didn't rhyme then it wasn't poetry, but now I know much better and quite the reverse, I think that rhyme is the easy type to write and free verse to be much more difficult. On Poetry Showcase (a very good site) There are three poets that excel at this type of writing and they are JewelPhoenix, Raskin, and Iroconnel (Linda) and I thought the girls had a lock on this genre until I read your writing (only a couple so far). You are easily among the best of writers of free verse. Thanks for showing me there's a place in free verse for us guys and maybe some day I'll learn how to write it too. Thanks Mike for the review and for posting this poem. I'm an ol' dog but I can still learn new tricks.