Music Therapy
What defines music?
Not sound and vibrations
Nor rhythms and beats
Nor measures and bar lines
Nor instruments and voices
But happiness
The wind whistling in a tree
The ocean rush in a tide
The bees buzzing in a flowerbed
The child’s laughter on a playground
Music is what soothes your ears
Music is everywhere-
a nickel hitting the sidewalk
a train making its appearance
a crunch of grass
a rattling of awakening
If this can touch my life this way
Imagine--
What will happen when it spreads?
Children
Adults
Disabled
Traumatic
Laborous
Elderly
Premature
can all be surrounded
in a blanket
of music
You can drown out life
with music
but you can never block the music
with life
It will always be there
to guide you in your sleep