I’d go as far as to say that no one is interested in a story everyone has heard already.

Once people hear stories, different versions start popping up. Settings change. Characters are created from thin air. Timelines never seem to add up to the original story.

It’s the title that ignites excitement, right?

I would assume the title is what peaks your interest in the first place.

Determines if you’ll buy the book, click the link, or continue reading the incredibly long social media post everyone keeps sharing.

What if I told you this was about a love affair?

Would it interest you to hear about a heart divided?

What is a love affair? I mean, is it possible to have more than one meaning?

I guess that would depend on who you ask.

Not sure I mentioned it before but this just isn’t any ole’ love affair.

In fact, it is about my love affair.

It is my heart that is divided.

Is that your deciding factor?

Did you buy the book? Did you click the link? Will you keep reading?

If I am being honest, she held my heart in her hands even before I knew I possessed the power to give it away.

I never have to explain what it is I am thinking because her fingers are already knee deep in my mind exploring the pathways I tried to keep secret.

She speaks life into the words that sit idly on my heart. She gives them meaning.

She sings out loud the feelings I’ve only let exist deep within my soul.

How could she know?

In my most uncomfortable positions she makes it very easy to move.

In the darkest of times she gives me 20/20 vision.

She is the wisdom in a world filled with confusion.

Her lyrics fall so softly on my verses.

Her notes reach the highest only when I am offbeat.

She is the cat call buried deep down wanting nothing more than to just be whistled.

I think it could be one of the greatest love stories ever told.

Filled with all the emotions needed to make a best seller.

Love, hate, passion, intimacy, vulnerability, fear…

Do I need to go on?

What more is there to say?

She is…

Well she was…

Damn.

Are we?

I could give her many names.

But today I’ll call her music

And she will play in my heart forever.