Bang! Bang Bang thump thump
twaaang, splash and crash!
Bass bass bass crash!
The music splits atoms and shakes my heart
My ears listen and translate and analyze
Every note, frequency: high, low
Decibels painted them into my brain
Where they smiled and told stories
Stories of love, lust, hate, green grass
Blue oceans with foamy white crests popping
Cheating lovers and perfect lovers
Bombs and killing and innovation
Grief, destruction, marriage
I heard them all
All them vignettes on a tapestry
I planted flowers with them
Grew little trees into sturdy oaks
Growing acorns themselves
Only to drop them on the ground to sprout
I show them the Bang! bang bang
And paintings and words that form images
They feel it!
In their hearts they pulse with rhythm and rhyme
Tap Tap Tap to the beat
Their little feet dance
My heart, it balloons red and veins pop out
Filled with love
But my body, my ears, they are naught
giving way to age, weathered with life
Experiences, good, bad, so so hard and so full of grief
So so full of love, joy, pillowed clouds dabbed with blue blotches
Laying on a beach of sand I smile
A smile of the century!
My eyes close
And my mind goes silent, forever