Folk Singers

Folk singers
paint pictures with words
in such a way that gives time
for     our     memories     to     mingle     with     their     words,
hang in the air like humidity 
waiting to fall like rain
before a summer storm. 

The pause between words,
beat, pick, or strum 
gives space
for the feeling 
to step inside.

Music, indeed, is a mystery.
It's physical, spiritual, mental, and emotional-
all separate, equal,
more than, and beyond...
holy, whole,
a language of its own.

Folk singers:
Prophets and sages on pages and stages
tell it like it is, 
tell it like it was, 
tell it like it can be, 
might be, 
will be,
and could be. 

Cat Cougill
6.21.2020