Finally Finished

I walked up on the stage and quickly glance at my mother.

I smile, knowing she is there to support me

I sat down and adjusted the bench, while quietly humming the piece that
I am about to play

I am ready, I take a deep breath....in, then out, while placing my
fingers upon the white and black teeth of this big creature

I start, and then suddenly I am lost..... I hear music in the
background, but I do not see myself playing.

Or am I not playing and only hearing someone else?

The image of the notes on the page are so clear in my mind that I can
see them while they stare back at me.

And then dead silence as I sit there waiting.... and I heard it, slowly
at first but the sound grew bigger and bigger, louder and louder ...the
sound of thunder. The thundering applause.....

I slowly get up and the audience stand up with me while whistling and
clapping, I grin, then bow and walked off the stage.

I sat down again by my mother and the music starts once more, now
another player is tackling the creature and once more I hear
appluase.

My fifteen seconds of fame is over...but perhaps another day, another
time, it will come again.