AN ENLIGHTENED EUPHORIA*

The fingers have been dancing,

Pressing the black and white in turns;

The sounds have been touching the ears

For quite some time now.

Pages and pages with squiggly notes

Drawn over ten horizontal lines

Have been torn and thrown away.

But nothing seems to dive deep within,

Right into the heart.

Nothing moves.

Nothing touches. 

Nothing enlightens.

Nothing makes sense.

Nothing sheds light.

Nothing creates realization.

The pages remain blank,

The keys undisturbed.

The lid is now closed.
Silence pervades. 
Silence takes over all.

Silence manipulates all.

Silence rules over all.

Silence dominates all.

Silence dictates all.

Silence becomes all.

Silence gives meaning

To life, to love, to everything.

Silence enlightens.

I am euphoric.

Music ebbs and flows around me,

Because silence is music.

If the silence conveys

A deeper, thorougher message,

Then I'd rather welcome her into my life,

Than live through the cacophony.

*Actually the name of a great tune composed by Nathan Johnson.