THE MUSIC TREE

THE MUSIC TREE

by Bobbie Bolton Burnett

So there you are

I have wondered what your fate would be

Sitting down in the front corner

Right next to the stage

Of an old movie house

Was where I first saw you.

You produced the music

For silent movies on the screen

Tickling across the ivories

For every thrilling scene

For in you were the sounds

Of romance, galloping horses, blazing guns

Battles of a war and comedies

You had it all, just with the touch of a key.

Your life did not end

When the movies ended.

Now you live in the shelter

Of the only tree in the forest

With music in its roots

@Bobbie Burnett 2018

Bobbie Bolton Burnet

By Bobbie Burnett

For Mil's Place

5/17/'18