October 2021

My gentle fingers landed on the heavy strings as I saw the round circles spiraling around the shining strings The golden light entered the darkness of the room as my thumb pricked the chilling string My hands switched rapidly to the next strings as I started to play a sweet song, high notes and low notes echoing throughout the room All the light faded away from sight and the sad low notes mixed with the happy ones The rhythm of the music wrapped around me like a quilt as all the notes connected and began to create the song that glowed inside me The music flowed in bouncy vibrating waves until I didn’t think about playing music at all on my elegant guitar I just let the glowing music play out of my mind and of my heart. Sofie Dardzinski, 9Potomac, MD