• Music stretching out
    and voices rising stronger and stronger
    full of longing
    makes me believe that I can somehow touch
    a world of such depth and soul striking feeling
    that I have never known on my own
    that I have never dreamed on my own

    Those voices
    brimming with passion
    I can close my eyes
    and imagine the love that could overflow an ocean
    with tears of joy or longing
    and the pain
    that could do the same
    but with blood

    And here am I
    connected to that alien world
    only through headphones
    wires like a lifeline
    I feel that my mind
    my heart
    my soul
    are an empty canvas those heavy notes cling to
    for a moment
    for a day
    for a week
    only to slip away as water falls off a bird's feathers
    and leave my canvas white.