Tune For Bix Poem by Moonchild Diva

When Bix said “I am not a swan, ”
what did he mean?
Did he mean “I’m not quite white,
I’m rather cosmopolitan”?

I’ve always wondered about that particular loneliness
that comes with the music
but I don’t let it get me down
I just keep climbing for the stars
and it’s one hard climb.

Sometimes a star’s not a star,
it’s a planet.
It’s Jupiter or maybe Mars,
and in the night sky,
there could be answers if you look long enough
and if you listen.
I don’t let it get me down
I just keep climbing for the stars
and it’s one hard climb.

Just when you think you’ve got it all figured out,
it’s different all over again,
friends leave, you’re somewhere else,
and you’re standing there on your own,
it’s a long hard climb to the stars, babe
but it’s what we have to do.

You can ask the gods
not to hit you anymore
but sometimes they still smack you around,
and I try not to let it get me down
because like Bix, I am not a swan
and I just keep climbing to the stars
(in a mist)
and oh man,
it’s a long hard climb
(and he only gave it 28 years.)