Sunday, August 14, 2011

Silent Symphony

A symphony is heard in the distance
But the strings are untouched
The reed lay silent
And the baton lies still

The music plays inviting
It brings along peace
But the crowd is agitated
Like angry buzzing bees

Yet the hall remains silent
Claps from a pair of hands
Fill the empty stage
The silent music fades

A man longs to croon
Not a sound escapes his lips
In vain he tries pitifully
But his shouts remain mute

But the symphony increase in pace
His heart beat conducts
The still air stirs a little
While dust gather on the keys

Passersby walk deaf
But music fills the hall
Strings resound the walls
And the music goes on

You Broke Me Best


You broke me best by leaving me
Alone without ear for a sorry plea
Nothing much for me is left
From love that for years I've kept

In shattered pieces you have sent
My heart hurtling down and rent
Apart from where it once before
Stood close to your beating core

I feared I'd die the day you left
My soul wither away in bereft
But then I learned you set me free
When alone I came to who I am to me

In pain I learned, by pain I grew
And much of it I never knew
My strength comes in times of fail
And light in darkness will prevail

Just Remember

Broken to know brokenness
Hurtled down to reach the depths
Where light is not seen
Remember only its glimmer
And from there reach out for it
Until it becomes mine once more

Shadows cover my eyes
And I see no more than pain
But stings will fade away too
And I know I am strong
No more tears in this valley
But remembrance of the sun

Darkness may engulf my sight
And everything is night
It no longer matters
For in this dark brokenness
I continue on and on
With the sun in my thoughts