Melody

A bittersweet melody threatens to wrench me back into feelings I am desperate to leave behind.

It takes just a few chords for my heart to seize and my eyes to dampen with memories. Sometimes wonderful and happy. Other times, nostalgic and grief filled. To this day, I can’t make it through Warren Zevon’s ‘Keep me in your heart for awhile’ without breaking down or needing to turn it off. My dad… I miss him.

Other songs throw me back to amazing times with friends and growing up…either cruising town in pickup trucks or by a bonfire in a muddy field. Music connects me to certain people and times, like a soundtrack for my life.

Memories of driving home from college on Fridays will always be accompanied by Nazareth. Then there’s the most recent connections. An old country duet, a classic 70’s tune and a song by Eric Church will forever be tattooed on my heart with only one name. The lyrics, putting into words, what I can’t bare to utter out loud.