Music and I

I write music because my vocation
is to write music

I play music because my calling
is to play music

I teach music because I love
to see the "aha's" people experience
as the light comes on and their souls ignite

I publish music because
seeing it in black and white made it real—
the ephemeral now tangible

I record music because
that was originally a way to have people
take interest in what I'd made "real"

And then the process of recording
became more real than the black and the white

So now I offer myself
for rent, always for rent,
in hopes to get enough $ in the trade
that I can keep
composing music
learning music
playing music
loving music
to carry forward the music
of the generations.

©2005 Steve Eulberg