You never cease to amaze me with your dichotomous ability
To wax and wane in my life
One moment you are anger and fury pointing a crooked
Finger at the past
Months of eerie silence follows
As I wonder if you are destroying the life
I worked so hard to save
Then out of the blue you emerge and ask me:
“Do you recall ‘Be My Winding Wheel’ by Ryan Adams?”
Good Lord, of course I do
How could I forget……
There is an enormous history between the three of us
Sharing his music, discussing his lyrics, reading aloud to each other
From Ryan’s book of poetry, “Infinity Blues”
And then the magic occurs as you pull out your acoustic guitar
And play the song while soulfully singing out the lyrics
I haven’t heard you sing for me in years, yet it felt like yesterday
But different
Your life is set to the path I helped charter
And it is so very cool that we still debate and philosophize about
Great literary works and gut-touching music
I know your idiosyncrasies and you know my vanity
We share history that has shaped who we are today
And for some crazy reason that tenuous web remains unbroken…
Copyright Michelle Beckham-Corbin 2010 All rights Reserved
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