It's been a while - so I return with drugs

After my last post, I didn't quite feel like posting again for a while. It seemed to touch a nerve - or heart perhaps, mine and others.

Still, even I can't hide forever. So I return, with one of the many Opiates of the Masses - for there are, after all, so many.

This one is everywhere.

It surrounds you daily, circling your mind as it flirts with your memory. It teases from you recollections and people you've not seen for years. Today, I had another fix.

But I didn't have the week, commercial grade stuff you get on a day by day basis. This wasn't musak in a lift, rock belted out on a radio or even rap driving the sanity from your mind and driving you to kill.

This was worse. For music that you merely hear is like a touch that only ever reaches your skin. Music that you sing, that you are as it expresses hopes and dreams - that, my friends, is the thing that touches your heart and leaves you weeping.

Today, I was once again singing with the choir.

Yes, I know it was wrong. Still, I went back into that den of evil and iniquity knowing the hold it has over me.

Singing with the top tenors (not my usual second tenors....I know, unclean, unclean!) I once again fell in love. Once again, the Phantom of the Opera.

And like a drug, you can't stop there. Youtube is there, with all the songs you know and have ever heard. The Musical Addicts heroin. First, the "Music of the Night". I couldn't help myself. Then "All I Ask of You". "Point of no return"...stopping was impossible.

Till I return to the last post, with a song to pierce the heart - it always has, and always will.



Everyone has their own drug - this one is mine.