From U48747@UICVM.CC.UIC.EDUSat Jan 13 18:32:27 1996
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 96 20:05:00 CST
From: Carrie Favela <U48747@UICVM.CC.UIC.EDU>
Reply to: b5-creative@blob.best.net
To: b5-creative@blob.best.net
Subject: The Music: A Poem

certain things in particular.




                              The Music


time upon time ago, i knew not of any lines
any limits
until the Music brought me here
To the line between the darkness and the light

i was small
but my imagination stretched beyond the horizons of the
universe

and back.

i barely heard notes drifting out on a breeze of electricity
and then i heard it
the Music
the Force of it slammed into me
i closed my eyes
and my eyelids fluttered
not with pain
but with my soul crying out in joy
i heard notes so beautiful
so pure
that those first notes still echo
and echo
into all of my soul

And so i approached the line between the darkness and the light
and with those echoes in my soul,

I stepped upon the line between the darkness and the light

as years passed
I would stand still, listening, straining for the music again
sometimes I would hear snatches of melody
a note of joy

but never like the first

i began to despair
would i hear the Music again
or would i die never hearing that sweet Music
i clung to the line between the darkness and the light
hoping and despairing
but always slipping further and further away

until I heard the first dissonant notes
of an orchestrate tuning up
of a concert about to begin
and like a Star's Fury
I screamed my joy

I stand on the line between the darkness and the light
letting the Music wash over me
I will never leave.



Comments to:      "Reach for the stars, but never leave your friends."
U48747@uicvm                       Cosmos