Gideon got it wrong

Nothing ever begins with just one word
only music inspires true movement -
the skies sang of their loneliness
oceans hearing the melody
playing cymbals that
crashed the shores
spurring winds
to whisk
across
a newborn dawn
that had not yet met
a warming, unfamiliar sun
that longed to quicken the pace
of all that patiently glistened below
craving more partners to join the dance
while tidal music began to gradually swell -
creating the living harmony of the universal hum.

N.T. Chambers, after careers in publishing, education and counseling, left Chicago to live and write in the high desert of Arizona, accompanied by an elderly English bulldog named Shep. Works of the author are currently appearing in Months to Years, In Parentheses, You Might Need to Hear This, Nine Cloud Journal, Wingless Dreamer and Months to Years magazines.