All Right Now

                
Just wanted to say
                 it's alright now.
           The song had gone silent,
        the suspension held too long
      but now it has picked up again.
    Like an acoustic campfire refrain
  eventually adding one by one
  drums, electric bass, Hammond organ,
  a full gospel chorus--
the stops are pulled,
the volume jacked.
Play it out to the end,
till fingers are raw and sore on strings
and vocals crack.
And it's just a taste.
When it's over and heaven comes,
for those of us who experience
transcendence through music
there will be new all-range voices;
amazingly strong and lithe and limber bodies
infused with their own version of gravity;
and intrinsic inborn theory,
to pick up any instrument and master it.
Around and around the current will flow
circling and changing and cresendo-ing
through us all,
just like and more than
the rare little glimpses now
when the ingredients of
       person, sound, spirit, and timing
               combine just so
                       to make the stars shine indoors
                              and keep the whole world spinning
                                     while the stress of living
                                          in this temporary, faded domain
                                                evaporates.


                                                  PamEhli/2001

Thank you Amy and Emily. And Jars of Clay.
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