I Am in Need of Music

Mijn nieuw pakketje CD's is vandaag met de post toegekomen. De Black Eyed Peas voor de boyz en Amy Winehouse voor mij :-)

Tijdens het avondeten volop met z'n 5-en staan "shaken" op de BEP's. Zo leuk om de kids in uitbundige vreugde en kinderlijke zorgeloosheid te zien dansen. En, vanavond is het dan "me-time" met de discman langs me en de zoete zangen van Amy in m'n oor. Happiness can be so simple...sometimes.


I Am in Need of Music

I am in need of music that would flow
Over my fretful, feeling fingertips,
Over my bitter-tainted, trembling lips,
With melody, deep, clear, and liquid-slow.
Oh, for the healing swaying, old and low,
Of some song sung to rest the tired dead,
A song to fall like water on my head,
And over quivering limbs, dream flushed to glow!

There is a magic made by melody:
A spell of rest, and quiet breath, and cool
Heart, that sinks through fading colors deep
To the subaqueous stillness of the sea,
And floats forever in a moon-green pool,
Held in the arms of rhythm and of sleep.

Elizabeth Bishop