Through different eyes

Grand Piano

High headlights
As we drove through narrow dark streets
Windows down
Letting the fresh air breeze into our nostrils
Tangled hair all across our faces
Throwback songs that brought back tranquil memories
Imagining how life would be if we were rich
Imagining living in a big mansion
What happens next?

Kids grow old
Move out
You're left alone
In a big house
That was once full of memories
Now?

You stumble upon school portraits
You stumble across awards, medals , certificates and trophies
You stumble upon empty silent rooms
Dark narrow silent hallways
But you remember the memories
You recall seeing your kids rapidly growing
Who would've thought you would be isolated

You stumble across that piano
The grand piano
The only thing that lifts up your spirits
The only things that rises you up
Makes you feel alive.
You stumble across upon this thing.
This piano.
That makes you realize your alive
It takes you back in time to when you were not along
It takes you back to when you felt happiness, love, peace and heard plenty of noise.

But once you shut that piano.
But once you stop playing it
It will all go away.
And then there you are.
Stumbling across upon dust.
You stumble across wind, it all goes away.
Just how everyone left you alone.

Now you seek comfort outside
Seeing green grass makes you feel alive, smelling fresh flowers and roses.
But once you step a foot inside the house
You heard a slight screech
And it makes you cringe.
Not wanting to go inside.
Because once your inside you feel invisible and transparent
You are a ghost who now just walks around
Remembering all the memories that were so valuable.
Wishing you could relive them.
But now
Touching those memories
And as soon as you touch them
They disappear
They start disappearing one by one.
Until there is nothing left.

And as soon as your ready to give up
The wind preparing
Have your arms wide open
Waiting for the wind to hit you and capture your dead soul
Take you far away to some mystical land
But as soon as its about to happen
You hear an echo from far away
Want to look but you give up
Hear it again, again, and again.
Thinking you're going crazy
It's the voice you once loved to hear
Echoing from far away
Clear your weeping eyes
And open them
It is your lover.
You were never alone
You were trapped in your mind
Your mind was killing you until your heart took over
Listening to your heart
You soon realized you were never alone
You were free
And loved.