This song expresses a perspective I always need to hear. By default, my mind believes that it can and must keep everyone and everything under control in order to be okay (see my previously posted poem āRest, Little Oneā), which leads to stress, anxiety, and all manner of disquiet. Peace comes when I remember that all that hustle for control is unnecessary and, in fact, delusional. Iām not in control of life, and even my conceptions about it are extremely limited and illusion-bound. I am only just a droplet of awareness in this vast, amazing river of life.
This is probably my all-around favorite song Iāve written (out of fifty or so now), and the produced audio recording that my sibling has made for it is even better; I canāt wait to share it with you, as soon as possible! In the meantime, hereās this video, for which I moved my keyboard outside for a much better background (and got a little microphone to help with audio, too).
āDropletā Lyrics
It appears to my little mind that I make things happen all the time. Every choice that I make carries brutal weight to save or to sinkābut Iām starting to think that life is far bigger than what I know, with complex connections in constant flow. Itās like a great river going where it will go, and the drop that is me can only follow. So thereās no truth to shame or blame; they are only tools in egoās game. It may fail to console, but Iām not in control; and the saner Iāll be the sooner I see that life is far bigger than what I know, with complex connections in constant flow. Itās like a great river going where it will go, and the drop that is me can only follow. So set down these burdens and yield to the flow: as the river goes on, just breathe and know that Iām not what happens; Iām not even a āme.ā Iām just a droplet of awareness in the river of reality. And life is far bigger than what I know, with complex connections in constant flow. Itās like a great river going where it will go, and the drop that is me can only follow.
