karaoke - a ramble

I've always had a rhythm in my heart

it's grown with me, only first being released at the piano

but something has changed


when the purple haze spreads into the sky from a faraway city

and the first specks of stars reveal since last summer

the vapour vanishes and the world is that of dreams

dreams told for many years through generations

dreams of people

dreams of faraway lands


this invigorating rhythm in invoked within me

how do you hold it in when every muscle forces you forward?

how do you resist the urge to let your heart out?

stories told from those long before us now

stories tolf to us by those who can't tell them any more

is it our job to coninue


this rhythm knocking at my head, ribs, heart

forces song free

I hatelove what has been unlocked within me

my heart is bursting free


I don't know what I previously shoved in that pit,

that dark cavern sealed away,

but I'm going to find out before it's dust



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