I've had just enough time to... wonder if I love the musician or her music?
Taken one spring night in Shanghai...
It was a pleasant spring night and I was having a stroll in the entertainment district of Shanghai where old and new buildings are well blended into an interesting and sometimes incongruous mix of modernity and history. This place then is aptly named新天地; "New Heaven and Earth". In the distance I saw brightly lighted kiosk selling this “mixture of everything” – Chinese helmets (why?) and Chinese Soldiers cap (this I can understand), ladies purse of modern design and traditional colours, and dolls. Porcelain dolls wearing traditional Chinese costume in elegant poses. And graceful modern dolls in gowns playing musical instruments. Maybe, it is this mix of contradictions that made me asked “Did I fall in love wih the music or musician
...of the musicians and their music and...
Did You
Fall In Love With The Music or Musician?
Did I
fall in love –
With the
music or musician?
I
couldn’t tell
Not when
she is playing, not when
Her
sound wraps round me
Like fur
on a winter morning
Before
the sun melts the icicles,
Lifts the heavy fog
Off the
sleepy lake and
Prods
lives under thick blankets
She
wakes me up
And
leads me to the sun
Did I
fall in love –
With her
or the sun?
Chinese ladies in their traditional costumes...
