The Emotional Score

Too sensitive.

Too emotional.

Why must I feel so deeply?

Sometimes, I wish I wouldn’t.

Yet, I’m aware those very emotions keep me tethered to life, as messy and harrowing as it may be.

It’s as if the emotions play on my soul like a piano, hitting the highs and the lows and, if I’m lucky, the steady, in-between notes.

Without them, my soul would be resoundingly silent.

Perhaps it’s that I must share these musical compositions with a receptive audience to let the notes flow freely, especially when they become too heavy and melancholic for me to listen to alone.

Perhaps it’s in the sharing that my music will truly find its home.