Once again, my heart is ablaze at the sound of the same man’s voice…
I first heard him sing just over a year ago, amidst a chorus-filled song, when his crystalline voice suddenly, and seemingly out of nowhere, pierced through the rest, and took my heart with it as its reverberations dissipated through the room…
To me, it was the voice of a man delighted and in love, sharing his delight with the world.
Today, and this week, hearing it again, I cannot but feel my entire stomach convulse and my heart pause in awe, before thumping with intensity and fervor, longing to follow and to stay with such a voice, such an expression.
His voice has my heart forever, I declared… and I told it to him, too, even before hearing him sing again today… that’s how lovely it is, and how strongly it sticks in my memory.
It’s funny what I thought of while considering it all afterward… when I lived in Japan, there was a brief time, shortly after moving there, that I had two phone buddies who also had just moved there.
One of them and I had both procured guitars, and so, one night, while talking, instead of hanging up and having to call back after her shower, the friend just left the phone on speaker, and I practiced some guitar and singing.
We joked that I was serenading her during her shower (which led to the telling of another silly story from college of my doing something similar).
When I told later my other phone buddy, he jokingly yet in earnest asked where his serenading was.
And so, one night before bed, I sang him some music… naturally, with its being just before bed and his being who he is, he fell asleep while I sang to him.
Basically, as we say now, I sang him to sleep.
And so, today, after hearing this tantalizingly beautiful voice sing, I recalled my phone buddy’s demanding question, and I found myself saying (silently to myself, that is) that I want to have his voice sing me to sleep at night… oh, couldn’t I, please?
You can just call me every night before you go to bed, if I haven’t called you yet (because I tend to go to bed at all different hours, depending on the week), and you can just sing me a lovely little song, and then we’ll hang up and I’ll go directly to sleep.
Done.
Easy peasy.
Let’s do it.
Let me have your number – here’s mine.
Date whomever you want; just call me every night to sing to me.
😂
So, yeah… those were my thoughts all afternoon…
Post-a-day 2020
hannah ananas 