More Than Just Music

By Ishika Goyal

From a woeful ballad

And a melancholy strain,

About having all our loved ones dead

On a day filled with rain;

To a happy song

Filled with memories of spring,

Where there’s nothing right or wrong

Just the fragments of memories about a lover

Carefree like a bird’s wings .

We have it all in our collection

Of soothing songs and music,

Which has no limit, stop or junction

And just controls our head and feelings.

Music has that enormous power

To boost our feelings and the blood in our veins,

To make us act like a lovely flower

Or a beast that needs to be captured with chains.

It lights up your state of mind

Like fireworks in the sky,

Be it the sounds of the wildlife

Or the mother nature’s cry

The beat and rhythm of a guitar and drum

Is like crickets singing on a branch of plum,

Like Nightingales singing in the middle of the night

Sitting on a tree under the beautiful moonlight.

For some people it’s nothing

And for some it’s their life,

For the rest, it’s their profession

Who love it more than their Birth rights.

The language of music is universal

It lifts the banner between diverse people,

There is music in every part of the nature

Be it the heart’s thumping sound or a child’s burble.

Music is something more than any tune

Or any beat or rhythm,

It can give us goose bumps in a second

Or suddenly make our bodies feel cold or heat up.

By Ishika Goyal