Music isn’t just pretty sounds, a pulse
Rock isn’t just a distorted guitar
Blues isn’t just a 12-bar form
Music should strike fire from the heart, so said Beethoven,
Music is poetry of the soul, heart and soul
Soul music, the existence of the soul
Touched by fire, music is a living thing
Life-giving, live or recorded, alive through ages
Living with individuals through life, through aging,
In youth or age, youth and age
Peasant and king hear the same music, so say the Chinese
Pounding through the heart, hearing, heard with soul
Existence of the soul, sounds’ salve, alive
Conducted through electricity in the brain
Singing through synapses in the soul
Symphony of the senses sent from on high
Humans sang before they spoke,
The lilt of language’s inflections
Performances perfecting the human condition
Culture, cultivation, culmination of the muse’s calling
Meaning so much more than pretty sounds, a pulse
David Fekete 