The Music Within
I hear it in the deep heart’s core.
– William Butler Yeats
as we grow,
hidden strings
stretch taunt
across the hollow place
inside our souls.
soon we learn,
through trial and error,
to tune each cord;
in constant search of
perfect tension’s faultless pitch.
as we move
throughout our life,
the choices we make
create from within
a music that is our own.
sometimes bitter –
sometimes sweet;
each song
a wondrous part of
creation’s unfinished chorus;
stirring from the depths
of our deepest emotions;
rising always upwards,
even to the very portals of heaven;
where listens the Everlasting Spirit of God.
– Jerry Dan Deutschendorf