When I Get Like This

 

Been playing music that I love

it's soothing to my soul

Sometimes when I get moved like this

the pen looks for a scroll...

 

Thoughts and memories flood my mind

and faces stop to stare

But just as I begin to smile

they fly off in the air...

 

From where they come, I do not know

their visits touch my heart

Pulling sighs from off my lips

as they turn to depart...

 

Im free from most of yesterday

but one still shines within

Her shrine exists for me alone

to visit now and then...

 

The music ends and silence reigns

its time to go to bed

I might not hold you anymore

in dreams, we dance instead...

 

Jon Arno 2023