The song that carried me
when people left
when i left people
has been dethroned.

For three laptops,
over six years,
it has been the song
most played
that I own,
the collection of piano notes
and soaring contratenor
in a bittersweet melody
has finally been overtaken,
not by the Irish boys I once thought of,
but swinging,
bold,
joyous music
I never imagined.

I wonder if I am happier,
that I listen to happy music
in this chapter of life.


(The dethroned: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqUdiBaTSNg
The reigning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7ojM_TdwuI
The could-have-been: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuorM2gu4Ps)