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Jacky Essombe

Of Love and of Music

The heart fills up with a secret joy. A joy meant to be parsimonious, contained. At the very same moment, a melody, elusive and nevertheless persistent takes over the whole vital space. The need to speak takes on an urgency mode. To speak…that is, to paint one's thoughts with words carefully chosen to provoke the spontaneous transplantation of the listener into a universe unknown so far…a universe, ours. To say how sweet it is to be alive! How grateful one is to the simple fact of inhaling the air into our lungs and exhaling the polluted air that will be purified to then anew accomplish its vitalizing role.
To speak… communicate… express by choice, nice and tender things. To reveal in this manner the soundless flight of this multi-colored fragile butterfly, that one should not touch for fear of destroying it. Every minuscule dust of color removed by a hand touching its wings would take away of as much consistency and its vital ether. To speak…murmur words filled with the hymn to joy, provider of the caressing sensation of touch. One opens up with no fear to the discovery of a faculty up till now unthinkable: an encompassing infusion melting the song of a bird to the sounds produced by the wind in its excursion through the tree leaves; an omnipresent influence juxtaposing the song of the water pouring from a languishing and majestic water fall to the crackling sound of a tree, warning of its letting-go that will soon come slamming on the ground.

The heart blossoms, releasing its rosy perfume which exhalations irradiates to touch the center of the individual. There !…There, is the secret door that opens to the land of musical realities. There, is the sanctum from which dash forward "ringing personalities" of all shapes and conceptions. There, is the palace of the subtle principles of harmony. Harmony of the musical progenies but also, harmony of the less tangible archetypes. Here, Love is Queen and King all at once, eternal, enriching. One surrenders to the unpredictable of discovery, with no holding back, ready to accept joy and sadness with the same step back, with the same candor and the same equanimity. Shouldn't so much peace profound exude the gift of the Elixir of wisdom? Shouldn't immortality become the most common of all things?…

The heart then begins to sing. As long as the crystalline pearls of musical notes will flow, it will sing and in turn make sing, in share. It will in turn speak profusely to say things about the tenderness felt for the beloved one and the one to be loved forever. The heart sings the present time, past and time yet to come, prophet and historian at once, in an unplanned alternation. It seems nonchalant but merely to stage the reality of the expression of permanence. One loves out of tenderness, one loves out of friendship. One loves out of pleasure, one loves out of ecstasy. One loves out of a hurt, one loves out of madness. One loves to death, one loves out of Love.
If a shout escapes the lips, it isn't out of distress, but rather is a channel to vent out the overfilled of intense joy that one could no longer contain without risking a euphoric explosion. The birds in the sky will answer to it, having perceived the message through the universal language of Love. The music of their repeated songs in a continuous echo entertained by other living species would have filled the whole space of the immediate environment…perhaps, of the planet…perhaps, of the galaxy…Wouldn't it be henceforth of a majestic musicality to be able to say: "My Love, I Love you?"

Amicalement,

Jean-Pierre Simons

© 2004

An Excellent Idea

It was strongly suggested to me by a couple of friends to get "Turquoise" published as a novel or novelette. I had thought of compiling all the episodes at some point and have them published. But I found the idea suggested to be more exciting and challenging. I will be working in that direction. So, this 12th episode of "Turquoise" is the last I will publish in my Newsletter.

I will quietly continue to write the story until its completion. The past episodes will be re-written, so as to include some details that I had left aside in order to make things fit the format of the Newsletter.

When the novel is ready, or is published, you will of course, be the first to know about it. In the meantime, the past episodes written will remain posted as usual.

I thank you for your support. Your suggestions are welcome, as always.

Amicalement,

Jean-Pierre Simons.

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