A Rock & Roll Tale, with a simulated live audio performance with the characters in the story.  Written, recorded and performed by me.

One Man’s Rock, Another Fan’s Star

Spoken Word musical improv with friends.

Pedro B. Gorman (me): lyrics, vocals, harmonica.
John Klima: Bass.
Maria Meyer: Wurlitzer organ. 
Nelson Almeida: Drums. 


To Need What Is Next 

To need what is next
is to shun what is near - 
it's our quest for best buzz
& rooted in fear. 

So to sing the song of now,
disrobe former brands
to tremble naked, humbled,
as fresh detail shows.

To embrace what is now
without judgement
is to leap bravely
careen - limbs flailing - into clarity.

When did blue skies
become so strange
I stopped wanting to look up
& chose to look at the ground.

Was it the leading roles?
Perhaps all those sneaky cameos
or best I just man up &
accept it was me.

Because all my heroes were
outlaws & underdogs
whose freedom I envied
from seat of my flannel trousers.

Because my bourgeois boyhood
craved made, mental mud,
straight from the streets - 
not private school choirboy boredom.

Should I just peruse
this uncluttered dawn
without heart forlorn
for shields of no use,

& thank all the battered ones'
sacred loyalty
in their defense
of lands never used. 

To admit that if 
so far untilled, they yield 
no fertile soil
from which I may feed. 

That then my duty be
to free from the Me
to give to the Them
that they too may grow their seed.

Their abstractions grow 
into full-form grace
of skyward statements
& empires of dreams.

So just need what is near,
leave the sky to unfold
& shun what is next
in hope of better now.

© Pedro B. Gorman 13.04.2021

To Need What Is Next

Writer (pedrogorman@medium.com) and Musician

Pedro Gorman

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