Song of Intensity
“Play the song with delicate intensity
young man. Play it from your
artistic devotion from the love of music.
Break down the prosaic into rhyme
and let the rhyme soothe the senses
and let the senses control your application
and let it eradicate all the fears
and erect a fortress inside your system.
Let the song rest on pastel colored
titanium pillars covered in roses.
Then let it ride along the tracks
that lead to a new spirit
that comes inside you and
takes over your mind and body.
It tells you how powerful you are,
how to use that power in your music,
and that you are in control
of your performance.
Your fingers belong to a new celestial body
that is you but not you;
that you are transformed from the
Earth to the intelligence of the Ether.
It moves your fingers along the keys
with power, precision,
innovation, and dexterity.
Your piano is now a paradise of sound,
a Heaven that you made it to be,
a bed of roses that purifies the air,
a beast that you tamed and conquered,
a fiery steed that flies you to your destiny
in a smooth gallop into the crimson sunset,
a piano that became a celestial body,
an object melted down by an artistic warmth,
that relies upon your sensitive approach to it,
a nurturing to keep it alive and beautiful,
a fragile object that needs you to function
from your love of music and
a sensitive approach to it.
Let thy song be intense as well as delicate.”
