You come up to me
And you offer me your hand
I take it into mine
And then you lead me there,
Across the golden ballroom,
Beneath the chandelier


And as we start to dance,
With music in our ears,
It's my first time in your arms
I never knew how it'll feel
Side to side, you hold me close
With hands that hold me dear


And your soft warm touch,
I want to remember it
Your kind brown eyes,
I want to fall into it
As you look lovingly upon my face,
You spin me around with such grace
And your smile's like the rising sun,
But I know not where it's coming from


How can I become closer to you?
I want to be known by you
And as I look upon you, with longing,
I wonder if it's possible at all
To share my soul wholly with you


But you lean your forehead against mine,
Light and gentle
You fill me with a warmth,
I can't believe is real
Though I do not deserve your love
Yet you pull me in,
You wouldn't let go
Your arms are yearning,
You want to be known


And with your hands in mine,
Though this might be a dream,
It's one thing I cannot deny
That you make me feel seen

–Inspired by Yiruma’s Chaconne

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Author’s Note

Man bro, why do love poems always gotta be like this?? T_T

Anyways, for the longest time, absolutely nothing came to my mind whenever I played this song on the piano. It was the same thing with many of the other songs I’ve been learning as well. Basically, my mind would be as blank as a plain piece of paper that’s so white it could hurt your eyes. I didn’t even know what a chaconne was or how to say it properly. I just played it because I thought it sounded nice, but it eventually got to the point where I was bored of playing this song and started wondering why Yiruma’s music is so famous.

However, something my recent piano teachers have been encouraging me to do is to picture a story that goes along with the music. So, I decided to imagine playing this song in some elegant ballroom with a couple dancing together next to the piano.

So one Saturday at my university last semester, I went into an empty room with a public piano and played this song with that exact same imagery in mind. And lo and behold, halfway through the song I saw some random guy waltzing into the room with an imaginary person in his arms, and he just went and danced in circles like that all around the room x_x

Bruh, it caught me so off-guard that I messed up lol. But after a while he danced out of the room and I was like, was he joking or what??? Well there was no one else in the room, so there was no one there to laugh at him. But man, my imagination really did come to life in such a hilarious way.

Anyhow, this is the first post in my Reimagined series, in which I’ll be writing short stories and poems based upon things like songs, piano music, and so on! Obviously I’m super excited for all the things I’ll write next.

I was originally going to do a reimagination of Yiruma’s “River Flows In You,” which I’m still thinking of doing later on, but I thought it would be easier to write a love poem inspired by Yiruma’s “Chaconne.” However, I realized how difficult it is to write a love song without sounding like a bunch of cheese, so I’m not sure if I’ll ever want to write a love story again, lol.

Also I was really tempted to write a French version of this poem, because I feel like I’ve been slacking off on my French skills lately. Besides, I thought it would sound a whole lot better than the English version, just like with the song “La Vie En Rose.” But you know what? I think my English version actually turned out pretty good enough for me. It still has its flaws, but frankly I’m in a bit of a time crunch and I wanted to get this published and out of the way as soon as I can. (As if I already didn’t have enough time to write this poem at all.)

Despite of that, I hope you enjoyed my piano cover at the beginning of this post! I also think I’ve been slacking off on my piano skills over the past ten years, so I thought I’d make a YouTube channel to help improve on it. I know I probably should’ve started posting videos sooner, but then I remembered how every time I’ve recorded myself in the past, I would often get annoyed at how my phone couldn’t pick up the dynamics of the piano as much as I wanted. In other words, the piano always seemed to sound better in person than it did on video.

However, I just realized that the good thing about recording myself is that I can really see where I needed improvement. Since I’m a perfectionist, I’m going to spare you all my thoughts on how I could’ve done better, but this video was one of the best out of like seven hundred takes, and man it was so time-consuming to try to make it as good as I wanted. For some reason I was so nervous while recording myself, and I kept messing up and having to start all over again. I was probably trying to play the same song for like two and a half hours straight, I’m not kidding. Looks like I have to get more used to recording myself.

In regards to my actual poem, I’m going to congratulate myself for finally writing something that actually rhymes throughout the whole thing. I truly think this is the best rhyming poem I’ve ever written so far, but my only complaint is that it still sounds like cheese in some parts, which is difficult to avoid in a love poem >_<

Welp, thank you if you actually read this entire post, but that’s all I’ll say for now sooo LATERR. If you didn’t enjoy reading about my life stories, then I hope you enjoyed the poem and/or the video. But if you didn’t enjoy any of them, then I’m sorry lol

Cover Photo by Jeremy Bezanger on Unsplash