Sarah Brady: The Radio Man

The radio man had many songs to play

Love, pop, and rap songs were on the playlist that day

All the songs he played were always new

The people’s minds he blew

The person he was didn’t seem very important to those who listened in the car

He stayed far from the city and lived only with his guitar

He wrote every song he played on the radio

And recorded them all night in his own studio

Daily, people all around the word listened to pick their favorite song

But, on Monday, June 18, something went wrong

No songs were playing on the radio that day

Had the brilliant radio man forgotten the normal way?

Days and days went by without a single tune

The sad people were becoming immune

No one knew the his name

But a young boy at the age of seven rose to proclaim,

“We will find the radio man

yes we can!”

Puffing out his chest

He set out on the quest

After weeks went past,

The boy had found the radio man at last.

The man was so eagerly working on his guitar string,

He didn’t hear the doorbell ring.

The boy walked into the small, raggy home,

There was not much room to roam;

He tapped the man gently on his shoulder and startled him,

The man’s old face looked grim.

“I’m afraid I cannot play anymore,” he said,

Those were the words that the boy had dreaded.

“My mind is beating and my heart is starting to think,” the man uttered.

The boy looked to the corner and saw all of the mail

None of them had an address,

but only were titled “Dear Mr. Radio Man.”

The letters only consisted of the songs they wanted to hear

And conclude with a simple, “Thanks.”

No one cared about who he was

Or how he was.

“They don’t like the music I play;

They wish for other things,” he said.

A slight breeze had made the dust dance on the floor of the small one-room home.

“Don’t listen to them,” the boy whispered.

“The ones who truly listen closely to you

Can hear the heart and truth in between the lyrics;

Your music makes me happy.”

The man smiled from ear to ear:

“I will make music for all to hear!”

The radio man soon rose.