I wish the music would just take me.

I wish I could find myself only in its songs.

I wish there was a better way to feel strong.

For I love the motion,

I love the passion.

I can be me when I am lost within

music’s him and ha.

If only it could just take me.

Swallow me whole into its fragrant frenzy,

a smell of a wood-burning fire

sweet tea and cinnamon.

I want to go to that place

that lulls my madness

and fuels my ambition.

I want the music to just lift me up

as though I feel like I could fly.

Perhaps, my eyes would come alive.

I need the songs of sedation

and the purr of my heart

when I listen to Miles.

It may just be that I could be me again,

no longer missing,

no longer gone.

I wish the music would just take me

and hush the darkness of my soul.

December 16, 2009