In the Key of Me
By Donna Franchi
Before the song becomes the air
I’m already standing there
With every instinct I’ve become
The writer of the song I bring to life
Melodies move through me
Shaping what I decide
What I hold and what I release
Becoming music in my mind
I don’t set the music aside
It lives inside the very score
A quiet map of what I feel
Still turning into something more
I bring feeling into song
And the vision starts with me
Every choice a shifting light
In this living symmetry
I write it line by line
The pulse beneath the design
Not just silence turned to form
But something steady, something warm
And I am both the writer and the string
The breath behind each note I bring
The instrument and the hand as one
Until the sound is done
I choose the weight of every tone
The way a feeling starts to grow
Every yes and every no
Is how the music learns to go
It mirrors what I’ve always known
The song I call my own
And every layer that appears
Carries echoes through the years
A resonance I recognize
Alive in sound, alive in light
I bring feeling into song
And the vision starts with me
Every choice a shifting light
In this living symmetry
Not just silence turned to form
But something steady, something warm
And I am both the writer and the string
The breath behind each note I bring
The instrument and the hand as one
Until the sound is done
Every song that comes to be
Still carries what began with me