Thank You

You don’t know how much you affected me
that night with your songs and rhythm and rhyme.
A silent hush of such simplicity
filled my mind and left me cherishing time.

Suddenly, I hear sounds in a new way.
How can one person change another and
yet never know? And how can I repay
a gift that I truly don’t understand?

You make me want to flex my wings and try
to reach some new height where my words can match
the cascading summersaults in the sky
that your rhythms seem to easily catch.

Your music has an amazing power
to capture the echo of a heart beat
and remind my soul of each passing hour.
Somehow daring me to reflect its heat.

Each song draws out words that I can’t even
explain; and demands that I stumble through
some sly rhyme that I’ve come to believe in
because each roaming word leads back to you.

Who knows where inspiration comes from; I’m
only glad it’s here. I’ve waited all my
life to hear a moment so clear. And time
will forgive me, until I’ve learned to fly.

One day I’ll tell you what a pleasure your
presence in my mind has been; then I’ll throw
out my doubts and invite you for a tour.
Meanwhile, I’ll let this lovely music flow.

What’s left to say once you’ve said all that you
can say? Perhaps, nothing more than thank-you.


Copyright Lynn Marie Sager 2008