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Black and white and girl

January 21, 2010
By rachelggggggg BRONZE, San Marino, CA, California
rachelggggggg BRONZE, San Marino, CA, California
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Favorite Quote:
"Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine." -Anthony J. D'Angelo


I sit at my piano
Alone, surrounded by a night world I cannot see.
If it is looking back through the window at me,
I cannot tell.

I'm by myself, yet somehow under the stare of the world's eye,
bared before the blinding light of a thousand spotlights:
and yet feel so uniquely alone.

But I look to the black and white ribbon before my fingers
and I know I am not on my own.

If anyone, anything is watching they see not a pianist,
only someone who has learned to cooperate with a piano
that is just as temperamental as she is.
A piano that hardly knows what emotion to feel,
a piano that was doing fine solo but is thrown off now that someone else is on the scene.

Somewhere amid the struggle between us
We can find balance, my piano and I,
a balance that waits patiently to be found.

And this delicate hold, once found, this dance of black and white and girl
of forte, of piano, of the last diminuendo-
is what the world sees
through my unshaded window.

The author's comments:
I wrote this one night after a frustrating practice session in which I just couldn't get the phrases down right. I felt like there were unseen eyes on me, telling me that I wouldn't ever be able to play it right! To me, it was a relief to put my feelings down on paper. I hope the reader feels that same sense of comfort at the end of the piece as well.

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elvi said...
on Feb. 3 2010 at 1:25 am
I showed my friend this poem.. "that girl is amazing"

I couldn't agree more :)

88 keys said...
on Feb. 2 2010 at 12:06 am
I enjoyed this poem a lot. Yes, you can let the piano to speak for you! Good Job, Rachel!

Jo2jo47 said...
on Feb. 1 2010 at 2:55 am
<3 you dear

BAMzzzzz said...
on Feb. 1 2010 at 12:11 am
HELLO RACHEL HOW ARE YOU. I SEE YOU WRITE POETRY. THAT IS GOOD.