Sometimes

Sometimes as you’re listening to a song, you can be surprised to find out that absolutely everything else has become right in the world. Things slow around you in elegance, they fall into a Godly rhythm and gain nobility and worthwhile purpose. You catch here the edge of a smile, there the twinkle of an eye. You notice peoples’ hands more. And you begin to wonder how it was that you ever came to live without this song. How anything could have ever been good or true that was not played to this melody or laid against this backdrop. And then in three or four minutes—if you’re lucky five—the song comes to an end. Life re-complicates, it disassembles itself right there in your hands. War and famine ensue, heroes fall, cameras flash. Your senses ring in the conspicuous absence. And you begin to wonder how it was that things ever seemed so good. How they will ever be that way again… Sometimes that happens.

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