Just a passing said and I,
held fast as strong I could.
But naught the motion of the world
be stopped by would and dould.
So chin up chap and march on by
with song in tune in head
They're fine, these friends,
respect their lives,
and carry on in stead.
When you can't get the song out of your head, where are you? Are you walking out of your favorite coffee shop? Heading into work? Are you stopping by the gas station or lying down at home? When you can't get the song out of your head, where are you?
I wish I couldn't get the song out my head. I wish I could shake my fist at some radio DJ who played Justin Biber one more time than I could stand. I wish I would walk a few blocks not even realizing I was humming my favorite tune. But I can't. I'm deaf.
They say you never know what you have until it's gone. I guess I'm lucky then; I was born without hearing. I haven't heard a sound in my life.
Life keeps moving, swirling up a storm.
Sometimes swinging fruits, disrupting up the norm.
You can stay inside all 'safe' to weather out the beast -
- or you can dance in thunder snaps and splendor in the feast.
What will you?
Lordy lordy lord what is there in this world more powerful than love? What is stronger than the ties of longing that bind a man to a woman, a girl to a boy, two lovers swung in a timeless dance? It has no ending, that performance, and no beginning that you ever notice. You wake up one morning to find the tempo of your heart beating faster than you remember, and you're there: right in the thick of it. Threads of connection spin from her fingers as looks of meaning stream from your eyes and you're together. A million miles apart, a letter in hand and you're closer than you'd be if you passed each other on the street. Then you remember and you'r