By aisha     purplesunsets@hotmail.com
Date: 26 January 1998

The Soul's Drum...

           Yesterday our souls danced;
       and today the dance ended...
  But I still heard the music playing
     and continued dancing-- alone?
            What happened?
        Why did you stop moving
                  your feet-
         dancing to our beat...?
       I know we shared a rhythm--
        the synchronicity of souls
            was music to my 
                    heart--
           Could I have been 
              the only one
     that heard the drum speak?
           Did you not hear the
                     MAGIC
          in every music note
                 we made?
            Did you not feel the
                    BEAUTY
              in every melody
                that played?  
                      Did
                THE VOICE
          not whisper to you
              in the middle of
                     night
                  saying softly
           "This is the one..."  
              Don't be afraid,
               Ramaswamy          
             Don't run away,
            there's more music
       we're supposed to play.
             The void you're
          feeling-- that's your
           heart speaking-
         your soul pleading...
          --my heart bleeding...
   Listen to the silence-- the music
         plays there-- don't stop
                 dancing 
                 with me--
                   apart
                   is not
                 how we're
           supposed to be...
                 Listen...
            Hear the music?
             I know you do,
            I know I'm not the
             only one that
           hears the Drum
                  speak...