If There Was Life Without Music

My fellow teachers and I successfully finished another school year last week.  During our school's last assembly, we were blessed to see many amazing performances.  My class performed a choreographed dance to The Black Eyed Peas' One Tribe, the teachers put on a surprise performance of our version of The Wizard of Oz, and the 6th graders gave us a little taste of their end of the year poetry slam.  Two students, Ethan and Alexander, were the oh-so-cool and incredibly talented MCs for the event.  They really set the stage for an amazing performance.

Ethan, who I had the pleasure of knowing at a previous school, blew me away with his poem about music.  He performed it with the right amount of jazz that a slam poet must possess and when it was over I thought, "Phew!  What just happened?!"  So when I ran into his mom the other day, a full week after the performance, I begged her to send me a copy.  She also sent me a video of Ethan performing his poem.  The beginning is cut off but I am so glad you all get to see his rendition of his own poem.

Usually I feature a dance video on Fridays for Dance Friday.  However, this young man so beautifully captures, in just a few words, the reason I post these dance videos, I thought this would be perfect.  Keep your eye out for Ethan in the future, cuz he is only heading into 7th grade.

Music
A portal through a porthole full of more
A way of life that can never be ignored
I'm transported from a world full of hatred and bore
To a world full of wonder and happiness galore
It inspires and puts fire to any bored soul
If there was life without music I would die in a hole
by Ethan