Music to my Ears Straight to my Soul

Music to my Ears Straight to my Soul (poem): view in the West Bank
Photo: Shai Reef

For all my talents, sound escapes me

Melody evades me

The songs of my heart can only be spun

By those who once were

Dreaming and thinking the same as I

For a place, a home, a Zion

Without a roar I am no lion I close my eyes

Roll myself into the collective voice

Does music decorate time or direct it?

Ancient sung prayers lead me to my desire, set my soul on fire

Where music releases tears from my emotional womb, prayer leads my desires from their exilic tomb

Buried long ago in hope for new home

I was told sound hits you in a place visions cannot reach

A reaction we cannot control

I release myself into its embrace,

Remembering an ancient time and place

I exist both then and now

A highwayman, a wandering jew

I rise through the words and the melodies

Knowing they can set me free

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