This Old Music Keeps Playing In My Ear

from Spiritual Animal by Oliver Loveday

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This old music keeps whispering in my ear.
Christmas is here again.
Me, sitting up old and writing.
Sparks shooting from my lonely pen.
Pain is a reality.
Dreams carry me where I want to go, and I work toward those
dreams.
Even as the earth moves away from the sun.
Even as somewhere, out there, I have brothers and sisters
waiting for my dreaming to end.
Waiting to be with me.
Reality and karma carry me from one dream to the next.
I am a lonely dreamer dreaming that some far off Christmas
we will all be together.
Brothers and sisters of a far off tribe.
Group conscienceness.
My verse is troubled by loneliness and dreams.
Eyes too tired to escape into good poetry.
Too tired to watch my dreams flit across my mind.

Some days I hardly make it except for a smile that breaks across
the aeons of ice. Soul ice. Karmic waste.
I don't need the blues anymore.
Dreaming has ended.
Christmas is here.
My love filters out to wife and son.
Family and friends.
I wait.
For someday there will be a tribe as surely as there is a dreamer
singing across the night.
Singing a crystal healing song.

Do you remember? Way back in old Egypt.
Giza.
Crystals burst across your soul.
Chakras open to this white energy.
I lust for the day white heat burns us pure again.

So this is Christmas.
White heat crystals.

Years of tripping through incarnations.
Age of Zen.
Age of Buddha.
Bohemian in midnight Europe.
New Orleans swing blues.
American farm boy poet.

My life is bigger than my self.
My dreams are stagnant.
Old words. Old songs.
I sing even when it hurts.
When there are no words/sounds.
I let the music carry me away from these tired old Karmic bones.
and some days I get a smile from someone.
Noah. Patty. A sister or brother.
I dream a while in peace.
Someday Christmas will be at home.
Someday I will be ageless.
Ho!
Oliver Loveday © 12/25/79/1:15am EST

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from Spiritual Animal, released April 4, 2016

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