when you look at it that way

when you look at it that way




i've set out to write a musical
on more
than one occasion. 
offered up
persuasions and calculations
both near and far,
while bouncing ideas off
invisible stars.


rewrote the rewrites
and
came up to the conclusion
that
everything i write
is
music to someone's ears:
brightening darkness
while
illuminating fears.


for that's
sort of what poetry is for.
that
and beers.






sjw 03/17/17 inspired at this very moment in time by the music in he.





from the 'beauty series' of poems