Lost in Remembrance

It all starts with a simple melody.
The clanging of keys, the strings
creating captivating harmonies.
All of music is but sounds, albeit
it has the ability to bring those around it joy.

It all starts with a simple melody,
To conjure up the deepest emotions.
Emotions that even the most hardened men could experience,
Reactions that even a blind man could see.
It is this simple melody that has the power to make the happy weep.

But it is not the simple melody alone, that has this effect.
It is the association of the melody,
It is the self control that is lost when this association enters the mind,
and It is the emotions that we've ignored for too long.
As the melody plays, the floodgates to the past open.

These floodgates can more often than not, spiral us into disaster.
For this simple melody makes even the unintellectual
weep for their late relative, merely because of an old music box!
Why must we be able to control our bodies, but not our minds?
All because of a simple melody.

But I will not be the one left behind.
I must move on and accept the simple melody.
Just as everyone else has,
and enjoy the bittersweet tones emitted.
As I await the next simple melody.