Symphony

I love the rushing sound of the tears of the sky. The continuous, endless, beautiful noise. It drowns out all around it. It cannot be contained. As the musicians are preparing the instruments, the Earth awaits it’s arrival. Then, as the first drop hits the dry, barren land, all is silent. A symphony of noise follows, a beautiful crescendo as the clouds reveal their best music. It can continue for hours, you can hear the cerulean drops calling to each other. You feel the refreshing drops hit your skin. You can’t help but be amazed of God’s drum circle.

I love the sound of that big, metal bird in the sky. You can never miss it. From the ground, you salute the pilot, carefully controlling his vessel over the deafening noise that you know he can’t hear. As you ride it, your ears are filled with its hum of power. Your realize the machine carries hopes, dreams, lives. It holds your future in its gleaming wings. Your stomach flips from acceleration, you can’t help but grin. As everyone else settles in with their headphones, you listen to the sound of your life changing. 

Those balls of fire streak for the sky. They compete with each other, laughing and racing. They finally explode, creating a ring of beauty. The sound is deafening, noisy, reverberating around the block. You flinch at the noise, yet you long for it. You earn for the noise. To hear the power ringing through the sky. You can’t imagine the speed, the explosion, the absolute glee the fire feels. It captivates you. As dozens of them are fired, you don’t get bored at their beauty, you wish it would never stop. 

Yet, through all the loud noise, the deafening power, the infinite noise, you can’t help but hear the little things. The call of one winged animal to another, the scuffle of adorable rodents searching for nuts, the lazy lapping of the flow of the water. You feel as if you can hear that delicate, painted insect land softly on that leaf. Through it all, you can’t help but be grateful for the world of music. You can’t even hear the bellows of great ocean creatures, the creaking of volcanic masses, the swishing of the blades on the savanna, a great cat prowling in the night, the gleam of light in the night sky reverberating in the infinite void. It makes you wonder, “What is the beautiful symphony that God hears?”

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These are my favorite sounds. In order, the sounds were the pounding of rain, an airplane, a firework, birds singing, squirrels, a river, a butterfly, whales, mountains, wind swishing the grass, a lioness hunting, and stars. I think I’ll write more of these; when I hear a new sound that I like.