One listen.

I’m looking over this and I’m a little surprised that I wrote this as easily as I did. It was very smooth to write and I think that comes through, but I think I could’ve been a little more vivid in places.

Hiroyuki Togo’s (ーゴ・ヒロユキ) “Reincarnation ~ To the Sea, to the Sky, and Then…” (“輪廻〜海、空へ そして・・・”) is from Aqua Cycle (アクア サイクル).

I hope you enjoy.

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Keys and a shimmering, and the keys descend. They rose and now they descend, and then some space. Space for a vibration; a hum. The keys seem to dance a little before another pause. Then things fill out.

There’s a grandness; a drama of the old and found in the celebration of the new, but an uncertainty finds itself coming in. An uncertainty of what could be next; what could come forward, and perhaps a sadness too. Sadness in what is lost in the disappearance of the familiar. The new might be the same, but it is not necessarily the same.

A sudden strike on the keys, as though a thunk, and everything else fades out. Eventually silence is all there is, but it does not last; the sound of water dripping breaks the stillness of nothing, and it continues on until the song ends.