Music is a sign of a thriving culture. We celebrate ancient cultures that made instruments and imagine their concerts and the human creative drive that made them want to create and manipulate sounds in such a way that it becomes an outlet for emotion and thought. 2020 stole our concerts. This is a short lament about wondering if we’re thriving. It’s me calling out my past self for not traveling when I could.
Read MoreYou’re silent while so much soul blinding, nerve numbing, intelligence dumbing is sweeping through unchecked. It’s a dark cloak in a sleeping orphanage. It’s a heavy, light-blocking spirit. Like a virus, it has gone through halls of your life, the corridors of your churches, and switched off every light in your classrooms. And the grief I’m feeling is that you’re still in there going through the motions like you didn’t notice the change.
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