Poem: I Let the Music Envelop Me

I Let the Music Envelop Me

I let the music envelop me

As the instruments play beauty

I let myself become that song

Floating over the hills and over

The waters like a gentle breeze

Rustling a leaf here or there

Moved by the music I bring

Through nothing more than

Being. I desire no pain, no

Destruction of anything, just

Calming in my melodic presence

Sharing the beauty and peace 

Of the wishes of my composer.

I desire no competition with

Any other, but, alas, some

Will wish it so, to be equal 

To me or even better and

As the song I will sometimes

Become frenzied, wild even

With aching and longing

Beyond my natural desire

To glide calmly over hills and waters.

January 2025

About This Poem

I wrote this poem in response to my love of classical music and music in general. Classical music always seems to take me away and it is more than just background noise. It also encompasses so much emotion always. The photo is of me singing in a choir at Oxford, I believe in Exeter College chapel (but I'm not certain). I'm the guy in the middle with the strange reflection crossing my face and to the right is Randy Gutwein and Dennis Kaye.