Intro: When we reflect on past events, it can stir up a mixture of thoughts and emotions often linked to a song’s melody and lyrics.
A song’s melody and lyrics awaken memories for us, both pleasant and disturbing. How we react to those memories can have benefits or disadvantages. Beverley Joy
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The human mind echoes memories of life
Some hurt and cause heartache and strife
Others resound victory and happiness
A song has been written for each experience.
Lyrics dance in harmony across the music notes
Singing our stories, the heartache, the cost
The highs, the lows, the ebb and flow
The rhythm, the rhyme of our own song.
Memories, bad and good
Play their tune through the chords
As we start to listen, emotions arise
We sing along or we forward wind.
Music notates our likes and dislikes
What we value and believe
Our strengths and weaknesses
Complexities and variety in relationships.
Songs coo and wail life’s happenings
The rhythm beats with our emotions
And melodies play with our memories
As the lyrics strum on our heartstrings.
Beverley Joy of Simply Story Poetry 2021. All Rights Reserved.
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