"My Piano"
 by Raye Mcdonald 


You sit silently in a corner of the room,
                   with
eighty eight voices waiting to
        be awakened by a
            special touch.
              
You are regal, elegant and
    adorned in ebony.
        To many your
grand size is intimidating.

Your notes have produced music
          from hands that have
embraced your keys with the romance
                  of Chopin.

Your sounds have created storms over
             turbulent seas.
    You have painted pictures of      
  peaceful pastures full of singing birds,
        that revealed the spirit of
                     Beethoven.

You have comforted the grieving and
       provided zest to a celebration.
You have been patient with a beginning
          student's banging touch.
                            
You speak with the voice of power,
and your conception spilled out of the
       heart of a Creative
               God.

You are my piano!



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Submitted September 14, 1999