"Immersion"

Well, I was looking through my old journals and rereading some of the memories I scribbled furiously when I had some minutes to spare. I found this poem that I wrote for Poetry Slam, a seminar that was hosted at my high school during junior year. It was actually supposed to be performed as a verse, part of a collaboration with the other students' poems to create a whole piece. We were actually supposed to present it at the Winter Talent Show in 2007, but we never got to do it because we never really got to finish it. I guess I'll just treat mine as a separate piece and give it a title of its own like the other poems I've written in the past. This one happens to be about the passion for music and the emotions that it evokes. I tried to add some imagery, alliteration, rhyme, and cadence so that the poem would take on a life of its own, just like a song.

Here it is:

"Immersion"

I revel in the reveries
The lyrical lies and truths tell -
Mesmerizing, drawing me deeper
To dive in and swim under the sea of its spell.
When jubilant and upbeat, I rock and tap my feet
To the sound, laughing away as I spin around.
Yet beware of the ire that could spark,
For it is the fire that burns, consuming my heart.
When broken and caught in misery's pain,
I hum melodies soft-spoken to dry off from the rain.
But I bounce back and find my rhythm once more
Amid the dissonance, knowing one thing for sure:
Life is a song, descending and rising in crescendos,
The pitch either high or low.
Immerse myself in the music, twirling and dancing in the flow.