Music Lesson

And the chords were struck in the long, long ago,

some angel’s harp before time or Joshua’s trumpets

bringing down the walls of Jericho’s evil; today’s chords

are still resounding, the root and 3^rd and 5^th, the triad,

adding the octave, in clear tuned tones, long chords held

and arpeggios, up and down, steady and bold, a melody created,

its harmonies played, blending, logically, predictably, a pleasant

movement from phrase to phrase, C major to G to A minor and F,

new voices added, minor chords and diminished, augmented,

notes shifted up that ½ tone or down, changing moods, creating

tension, an emotional arc, or adding a 7^th, bridging the changes,

transitions, progressions from chord to chord, key to key

modulating, new harmonies built on these foundations,

like we who listen, like we who play, bridging ourselves

to the new chords we hear, new chords we perform, new lives we choose,

our own harmonies keeping us connected to the music of earth,

the music of life, embedded deeply into our very souls, this the soul

of mankind, of humanity, chords changing, transforming, like time

moving forward, keeping our melodies, our harmonies alive, dissonance

resolving in the perfect chord, the perfect harmonic, perfect accord.