In the Background

In the electronic age
multiple programs, multi-tasking
terminology created

"in the background"

All those days of my life, I never stopped looking at the sky
Free cassette tape spinning in a primitive handheld device
deep voice that echoed my sentiment

Chase away the ghosts that haunt me now

22 years into the fray and the song never quite went away
it was in the background
like my looking for that answer
looking to the southern sky
and to the north if I were already there

My mind and heart "a constantly running program"
searching for that answer
with that old free song as a guide, a testament
that someone else knew what I was looking for

into the night skies

That tape never went away
always somewhere in the background of my possessions
like the search that never stopped
because it knew it couldn't, no matter what transpired

the song was of one who would chase away skeletons

one who "wouldn't mind"

I found her from 967
a break in the curtains that displayed heaven
ghosts and skeletons on the run
Now I'm in that southern sky, under her sun.