song words or music

lyrics messaging my brain

heart feels tone and beat

alone either works okay

best balance and harmonize

That's the last of 12 short poems in my piece, https://medium.com/write-under-the-moon/what-i-believe-c90b971c55d5, and the only one I discussed in the piece.

I also think you'll appreciate these words found in my first piece of self-expository writing, https://medium.com/p/7bdac6f1510e, after I discussed my love of The Beatles and before I proceeded to some of my favorite lyrics from them, The Clash, and a few others):

I love how music triggers memories — often bringing me back to a time that now seems simpler and yearned for — but in reality those times were no simpler than the present — maybe it just seems that way because I survived them — because they are safely in the past?