The Music of My Love

April 17, 2000

Play me the merry music of my love
Play it soft and sweet and low
Let it linger in the air and land all over me
Let it simmer silently there until it sizzles

Play me the marvelous music of my love
Make my music fast and furious
Force it long and loud and large
Ram it hard and hot and heavy
Hear it bounce brilliantly off winsome walls
Wail wildly the song that's in your soul

Play me the magical music of my love
Play it without thinking
Feel it welling up and waiting to explode
Feel it fierce and faint and fleeting
See it soaring superciliously
Touch the tunes with your tongue
Cradle the notes with the nape of your neck

Play me the mystical music of my love
Play it proudly and with power
Push it in and pull it out
Mark it on my memory so that it remains
Recorded there for perpetual replay
Strain to stamp it starkly
There and then picture paradise

Play me the miraculous music of my love
Make my music with your hands
And with your heart

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