No. 241: It is not a musician's job...

It is not a musician's job

(the ones you think can "discover you")

to care about your soul.

Do not be fooled 

into baring Voice

to a singer

who cares not--

and "only sings"--

for you may find your instrument

bloody and bruised 

on an altar

built of ignorance

to a deity unseen.

And do not venture to sing 

for a "non-singer"

who cannot dream

and places limits

on Possibility

before she's ever

tasted

It.

Sing, rather, as if Voice is equal to Your Soul

and Both

having equal value

deserving equal respect

love

and praise--

Both

demanding 

the heat of a refiner's fire

to mold the space

for grace--

and the understanding

to wield power that,

when fully embraced,

leads only to and from

caring

where every Voice is safe.

For I cannot sing

unless I believe every Voice is free.

It is just 

something

about me...

And knowing this about me, I know it about YOU...

and all those false deities

those beater-uppers and "voiceless" ones

fade into the bright light

of Truth:

WE. SING. Yes, that is true.  Voice is Me.  Voice IS You.

THIS is Life.  THIS is Love.  THIS is Opera Organically.