Janis

• Artist: snow_lotus
• Description: Just read "Love, Janis" and moved/tipsy enough to write this.
  
  Those who know me know I'm a hippie child born in the wrong era.
  
  I've been drinking, and listening to Cry Baby while reading Love, Janis all night. Not sure whether to say it was a catharsis to finish the book or whether it was inspiring. But the emotion and strength that Janis showed through her music was an inspiration.
  
  I feel I have not captured the spirit of Janis enough in this piece, but it's a start. :)
• Date: 05/10/2009
• Tags: janisjoplin

I saw you
Through silent pictures
Adorned with bead – strings of pearls,
A bright smile tinged
With the colour of melancholy.

Your rasping voice
Screeching like an electric guitar
Melodiously filling my senses,
From across the decades
Imploring me to love free.

I heard you
In my soul, in my bones
As you cried out
Screeching for freedom.
A priestess of rock, evocating
The soul of the people.

Your music
Promising changes, in perception
Alluringly seductive
To my thoughts.
Breaking down barriers, built across time,
Of social shallowness.

Janis,
You are immortal.

Janis,
Your legacy lives.

The ecstacy of music
You channel
With heart and soul.

The summer of love
You embody
By existing.

You came,
You changed,
You left and lived on.

I listened,
I dreamed,
I loved and lived awakened.