The Album

(This is a brief experiment that I may work on more later, All Musical Lines are from sons on the Album Tapestry by Carole King)

I feel the earth Move under my feet

Almost a perfect eighteen inch square wrapped in newspaper decorated with his unique doodles and poetry. I knew that this was a special gift. The gift of music. He was never to give a gift without long and careful consideration. Each lyric and note was something that had engrained itself in his hippie soul. In may ways he was giving her a piece of his soul.

He had removed the shrink wrap and pulled out the inner paper sleeve. It had been plain white sleeve before his ball point pen had written a note “most are life savers when you are feeling blue” he wrote.

She knew how precious this gift was even if the salutation was a bit wish washy, “This is for you with love from, at the very least your friend always,”

Months later I stood on the railway platform and waved good by, for the last time. Tears dripped off her chin as she heard a few of the lyrics that meant so much to her.


One more song about movin' along the highway

A year later it was her time to leave. He new beau was not one for a life sound track. It was his best friend he was a boy meant for letters and science. She was spiritual and full of music. His best introduced her to new music. She introduced both of them to The Album> Their well bread rich lives had trouble hearing it but it only attracted them to her more.

She lay in her beaus bed each both happy and unfulfilled. It was her turn to leave.  He wiped a tear from her eye but in the end could not walk out the door with her to say good bye it was too hard.


And it's too late baby, now it's too late

Another boy gave her an album It was just as sweet but not as precious. Full of love songs and crooning. And after a year of romance it had sizzled and saying good bye to him was hard as he came to stay with her family for a few days.

The fought and tried to make it up. Several time but she had found distraction while she had been home.

She put him on a plane and sighing with relief she got ready for the next year at school.


My life has been a tapestry of rich and royal hue

She had met him breifly at a party several months before but his return was to see her.
He had had trouble that he hid from her for a while but she learned them all and they became close fought and loved as much as any two people could.

She was young and exotic to him a world traveler from many states away he never traveled much. Her presence in a wedding got him to take his first plane ride.

After two years they could neither be together or apart. The music of his soul and her soul were and unpleasant fugue.

They needed to be in different cities to finally end all the trouble and entanglement between them.

I'd like to know if your love
Is a love I can be sure of

They didn’t know when they had met. They had know each other for at least 4 years. And it became obvious to all of their friends that they were a couple before they realized it.

As a valentines gift he gave her a simple wrapped 4 inch square

“I know how much this means to you” he said. It was a CD of the Album.
“I knew there was a reason I married you” she said

When my soul was in the lost and found
You came along to claim it