Music has always been with me,
All my life it has been there.
Classical and jazz ruled
And have lasted the test of time.
I was there in the sixties
When the world was changed,
And life became open to the world.
Where the old music was changed,
Changed into the modern sounds.
The modern sounds were fine,
But still in my heart classical and jazz
Ruled supreme.
There were songs of the time
That I saw as being for slow old people,
But now I am a slow old person
And accept that those songs were good.
And the older I get
The more music I listen to,
So that I now listen to music
That I would never have done
In my youth.
I now know that there is so much music,
So much music to listen to.
But there is also
So little time.
I believe I know a great deal
A great deal about music,
But it has come to me
That the more I know about music,
The more ignorant about it
I realise I am.
So much wonderful music
Is still out there
Out there for me to hear.