I really like how some songs makes you think of distant memories. Places, smells, people, events. They all rush back to life with such simple chords and melody.

Something else that gives more than just a trip down memory lane though, I really like how some songs - a selected few songs - has the ability to remind you of emotions. Of feelings that might not have a name or description, but are just as precious all the same. This wonderous reliving of the moment stops me in my actions and demands my full attention. The swelling of my heart and the calm tenderness that floods my senses just overwhelms me.

The sound of music
- tinkling keys-
thrumming rhythm through my veins
have reverberated through some membrane
separating memories from the soft feel of your kiss
and suddenly
the cold air sings a melody of all I've
lost
and thought I could regain
alone.

But these fragments of time and joy
I could not gather in my palm
these tiny lines you used to trace
have become much too small an area to bear - alone-
the weight of this echoed laughter.

Feels so unfinished somehow.

Ah, my love

Ah, my loneliness

Ah, this pain