Drummer Boy

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Click "Play" on the video above and when you hear the music start begin to read each stanza in about 5-6 seconds. Don't read too fast or too slow. If you time it right, the poem matches the music. Again, don't read too fast, even if you're tempted to.

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Welcome to The Mind,
An untrained circus of thought.
Drawing energy from The Heart,
A source that's overwrought.

Creaking doors swing back and forth,
Self-propelled on their hinges.
If you think the sound is bad,
You should see the way he cringes.

They stop and he takes a breath,
The silence rings loudly in his ears.
Closing his eyes in the darkness,
His biggest fears appear.

More loud thumping of his heart,
Like a giant cymbal being hit.
When it finally ceases to bang,
The sound of the doors still emits.

Scraping back and forth,
The cogs of The Mind trying to move.
They require blood from The Heart,
To grease up the cogs' grooves.

A ringing becomes clearer,
As he tries to find the receiving end.
He struggles to escape,
When the drumming begins again.

His heart beating faster and faster,
With no clear finish in sight.
His heart is louder and harder,
With something about to ignite.

He hears faint messages from a voice,
Deep inside his soul.
But with the ringing and the beating,
He no longer has control.

The voice of The Soul and ringing of The Mind,
Mix with the drumming of The Heart.
For a few brief moments of time,
He can't tell any of them apart.

Then the drumming rises up,
It is beating wildly in his chest.
To transcend above them all,
It now soars over the rest.

It continues to beat louder and harder,
Over and over and over again.
He doesn't know where it's from,
It's there and always has been.

It simply continues to beat,
As it gets,
Louder,
And Louder,
And Louder,
And Louder,
And Louder,
And Louder,
And Louder,
And Louder,
And Louder,
And Louder,
And Louder,
And Louder,
And Louder,
And Louder,
And Louder...