Disparate Hearts

As faces change with the seasons,

Nature demonstrates her distaste for a vacuum.

Through an eclectic cacophony of voices the collective heart grows.

Each new beat in the ensemble adds to the rhythm...

We are one in the midst of collaborative metamorphosis.

As a group we form

An entity that can move forward

Through this season of dying and darker shorter days

Where the light becomes more precious

And we see each other in a different light

A light, once harsh and meaningless,

Now smooth and sweet

Pulling nostalgia from the deepest parts

Of our distant hearts

And we keep searching, struggling

Looking forward to a day when love finds us

Pushes us to be better than the preconceived notions

Of our little lives and our wildest could be's

Hocus Pocus potions preparing

Parties of 3, my side, your side and then

There's the truth concocting cures for

Ignorance is no longer bliss but

...I'd rather die not knowing what this is

It peels my skin like claws down my back

It's a venomous scratch that latches and attacks

Kills me slow, and resurrects me back

While I lay in the dark searching for the light

You are the reason for my artistic growth

With eyes like thunder

And lips like the sunset

Speaking words that I transfer into art

And place on the bare white walls

Of this empty apartment

I see the same faces on these walls, in these frames,

But I see the new ones within these walls everyday

And suddenly I realize that the faces in the frames may be the same and long gone

But the memories within these frames never change

And are held in place forever like all of the new ones

~ An “exquisite corpse” transcribed by Northstar and composed by the performers & guests of Java Expressions: Acoustically Speaking on October 6th, 2015 at The Coffee Scene in Spout Springs, NC

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