<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">There’s A Beat<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class="">There’s a beat,</div><div class="">and a sound there,</div><div class="">you hear it,</div><div class="">and a tone when we feel it,</div><div class="">a meter to the planet, </div><div class="">and such majesty to life. </div><div class="">There’s the song of our emotions</div><div class="">in the syncopation of our confusions,</div><div class="">and the cry of our devotions</div><div class="">to the heart’s expansive score.</div><div class="">There’s a melody to take us </div><div class="">through the storms of our rehearsals,</div><div class="">through the seasons we must improvise</div><div class="">a counterpoint to dying. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Oh holy music made of love and suffering, </div><div class="">bathe us in your colors.</div><div class="">Let the silence still us </div><div class="">to the ache in our fingers and our bones.</div><div class="">Let us find the harmony,</div><div class="">the notes that plot a passage,</div><div class="">that spell a message of reflection and protection,</div><div class="">if only we will trust and pay attention,</div><div class="">trust and pay attention</div><div class="">to the intervals that link us,</div><div class="">the relations that give meaning</div><div class="">in our symphony of loss. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Tim Hicks</div></div><div apple-content-edited="true" class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div class="" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;"></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>