“Lovin’ Those Mixed Up Spirits In The Moonlight” — Image by kenne
Mixed Up Spirits In The Moonlight
In all my years of working
I knew there was
more to life
than making money.
It was all about a
“love of life,”
of doing things
with and for others.
The more things I did,
the more I was pulled
in different directions
by obligations,
responsibilities and
desires —
being “mixed up”
was a way of life,
like a spirit in the night.
My experiences
became the ingredients
I gathered in
my love of life —
including the “wild times”
I may have pushed
into life’s backrooms,
and closed the doors.
Often,
music and poetry
have a way of
opening those doors
in the spirit in the night —
like Springsteen’s
“Spirit in the Night:”
“Me and Crazy Janey
was makin’ love
in the dirt singin’
our birthday songs.”
His words bring back
those feelings of
the fire once there.
“Crazy Janey” and her
“Mission Man,”
something right
out of the past —
“She felt so nice,
just as soft as a
spirit in the night (all night).”
. . .still singin’ our birthday songs —
mixed up, mixed up, all mixed up!
kenne
p.s. Being mixed up is good!
Plus, July is a birthday month for a my “crazy Janey” —
still singin’ as long as Bruce plays for us!
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