Soulful_Strings

Soulful Strings Soulful Strings As I plop down on the over-stuffed rose-tinted antique love seat, childhood memories dance through my imagination, creating a comforting yet unbreakable bubble, until reality’s sharpness stabs the unfamiliar world into several suds of disillusion. Intensely fixated on a pleasantly plump picture of an eight-year old girl, with stringy hair the color of frozen lemonade, and big cow-brown eyes, I twist my questioning face into a wrinkled raisin trying to recall child-like senses. I am this girl. I vivdly remember wearing a familiar itchy hand-me down bright red Christmas sweater with a sewn on grass green tree that clung to the rusted metal bells and cube shaped gifts by worn out threads. Concentrating fully on the one-finger notes of “Rudolph”, I look as though I am pondering the meaning of life.. Saddened for the loss of my precious child-like innocence, I divertingly lower my plain brown eyes with the memorable piano picture back into the book of memories- the book of feelings. Playing the piano had always been a personal expression as well as a way to reward myself with a unique talent that I sometimes shared with others. Surprisingly, I found not only do I life, yet, very, am, keys, way, through, represent, piano, make, feeling, always, world, wooden, white, tones, thoughts, thought, style, sturdy, strings, strike, smooth, slick, simple, seems, reveal, rest, rainbow, pride, powerful, playing, picture, over, out, notes