Music is My Religion

This poem just came out of me last night. I find it ironic that it decided to be a poem but not a song but here we are. Anyway I grew up going to both Catholic mass and the UU church every Sunday and as an adult am am UU with a love of Catholic/ Christian mystics. No matter where I was at wrestling with the different dogma and things, the music always made me feel like home. Even if I couldn't articulate it as a connection of "spirit" at the time. Anyway take it as you will-

Music is My Religion

Music is my religion

The moment is my church

For in the moment we are connected

In the flow with something bigger

Music is my religion

Music has saved me

Made me brave enough

To make choices with my heart trusting melodies before I trusted my own lyrics

Music is the voice of the spirit

A language I speak clearly

I love to teach others it’s ways

We pass on messages

Will little notes and symbols

Recordings

But the expression changes with each person who plays it

The heart of the composer merged with the performer

Music is my religion

The moment is my church

Music helps me find my way

Out of some hell

Some part of my mind has put me in

Spirituality is our individual connection

Religion is what we do together

So let us connect

But please don’t misunderstand

Just because I say this practice is sacred

Does not mean we must censor ourselves no

Let’s cures and make jokes

Let’s celebrate what makes our hearts sing

Sing all the songs about all the fart jokes

We’re in community together

What matters is that we have a space

To be brave

To let our walls down

And be one in one anothers offerings

And sing