Elevation: a poem

The CD is placed in the player

volume adjusted up or down

the arrow button pushed

and whether I am laying

in a darkened bedroom

to escape the throes of a migraine

or in front of a bright light

for therapy instructed by my doctor

or writing a poem or a blog

to share later with others

the piano music soars floats

surrounds elevates me

beyond my pain

beyond the storm

beyond the dark

beyond the light

and

I am the rain dripping

on leaves in a vine covered forest

I am a feather floating

through an azure sky

I am a dream sparkling

spinning among the stars

I am full of beauty hope

ardor and unwound

I am the universe

I am empty

I am weeping

I am enough

I am free

just for those moments

I am elevated beyond

and all is calm.

Tansy Julie Soaring Eagle Paschold

This poem is based on Matthew Mayer’s piano compositions and was a prompt in Robert Lee Brewer’s Smash Poetry Journal, page 10.