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 “Rest, Little One”), 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. I’m 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 I’ve written (out of fifty or so now), and the produced audio recording that my sibling has made for it is even better; I can’t wait to share it with you, as soon as possible! In the meantime, here’s this video, for which I moved my keyboard outside for a much better background (and got a little microphone to help with audio, too).
“Droplet” 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 sink—but I’m starting to think that life is far bigger than what I know, with complex connections in constant flow. It’s like a great river going where it will go, and the drop that is me can only follow. So there’s no truth to shame or blame; they are only tools in ego’s game. It may fail to console, but I’m not in control; and the saner I’ll be the sooner I see that life is far bigger than what I know, with complex connections in constant flow. It’s 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 I’m not what happens; I’m not even a “me.” I’m 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. It’s like a great river going where it will go, and the drop that is me can only follow.
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