I don't have a musical background. I played the pian for 5 years. My brother was a singer and musician. That's it.

I like opera, 40s swing, 50s rockabilly, waltzes and marches, Latino music, and that's about it.

I wrote this to be put to music.

https://medium.com/born-to-write/poetry-ballad-for-a-beauty-queen-e7fb65b603c2

And I was hired to write this for a choral piece.

https://medium.com/born-to-write/my-poem-the-broken-soldier-and-the-healing-light-97084387b522

I don't think words in music have to be meaningful (quite apart from the fact that I never listen to words in music). Mostly they don't have any deep meaning.