The Novel Romance of the Song Writer

Ten days ago, a person by the name of guitar man came on the writer's site authonomy and introduce himself as a song writer who thought he might get inspired enough to possibly write a novel.  Something about his post spoke to the heart and soul of this used to be poet and want to be song writer, and so, he inspired me.  Two hours later, I posted what he inspired me to write.  Then, something must have happened, because he deleted himself from the site.  Now, I don't know whether someone was yanking my chain, or if I made him uncomfortable.  I hope he only got inspired and left the site to start his novel, however, when he left, he took his thread with him, and that which he inspired in me.  So, I'll share it here.

The Novel Romance of the Song Writer

You know how you get a tune in your head

And you really just can't shake it

You know it's trying to tell you something

But you really can't quite make it

It runs through your head all day and night

A relentless melody

You ignore all outside influence

Until it's all you can see

It's not the notes that sucker you in

Though at first you thought it true

Its actually the beat, the rhythm you feel

That really speaks to you

Still the tune will keep you company

As you work the beat in your head

From dawn to dusk and in between

And even in your bed

Then a moment in time, the flood breaks forth

And the words come flowing free

And nothing can stop you from writing it down

If you're anything at all like me

Then you wonder at the tunes that brought the words

And why they came and whence

And you work them around and change them until

They can't be recognized since

Beware the rhythm, you young song writer

What romances the heart and mind

For they'll tug at the soul of the writer in you

To the epic score you will find

With a grand crescendo you'll take pen in hand

And start to tell a tale

A ballad is what you planned to do

What shortly becomes a whale

Then before you know it, before you're aware

You're adding the in-betweens

The sentences that tell the whole, long story

Of detail in the scenes

No longer will you sit to write brief encounters

Of only two or three

Four, six, and eight, your characters will amount

As the novelist in you is set free.