Bella Shepard

Thursday Me

There’s a Thursday me inside my clothes

A Thursday me that no one knows

I become a singer on the stage

For those old and worn with age

Their memories fade with time

With still a remnant of their prime

We sing the songs of yesterday

Of forty five’s we used to play

And while the present is illusive

And recent memory is confusive

The sound of music in their ears

Awakens thoughts of all those years

The words come back upon the tongue

They climb the ladder, rung by rung

The magic of music never fails

It reaches out, pulls back the veils

Which have covered them every one

Until it’s hard to see the sun

They give me more than I can say

I live a dream of yesterday

Of whom I thought that I might be

But did not become reality

I sing for them, they sing for me

And I am happy as can be

For my audience you see

Finds the very best in me