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I was so wonderfully involved in a project to capture the essence of why people become so attached to music as it fuels an integral part of each individual's experience on this earth.

As Joshua Fernandes, an amazing human being himself, writes:
"In such a busy megalopolis as Seoul, where we live bombarded with sound, we often choose to take refuge in our personal auditory sanctuaries, but once the earbuds come out are subject to the same atmosphere as everyone else."

For this occasion, I wrote a poem...

SOAK YOUR LIFE IN MUSIC

Music of the rhythmic masses transcends above all races
In the heartbeat of the wanderer, the stuck, the loved, the faceless
The measure of vibrations can be heard in many places
from the first song birds that escaped from out their cages
to the triumphant celebrations in war and peace throughout the ages
And in the hum of modern life and patterned footsteps on the pavement,
bass bellows from the bowels and treble runs it rapid cadence
Listen carefully and you’ll hear the rhythm pulsing though the matrix

Music is a tool that gives you the permission to feel
Imagination or reality, these emotion roused are real
Boogie, jump, jive, shimmy, cut a rug
Foxtrot, prance, promenade, do the jitterbug
With an educated ear and higher sense for quality,
Move to the beat with your heart on your sleeve

Choose it
Dance to the impulsive infusion
Let it uplift your heart in its profusion
Light your feet on fire and lose it
And soak your life in music!