“This Too Shall Pass”

“This Too Shall Pass”

When music’s prelude’s solitude beckons

And night’s twinkling sky is full of starkness,

Then more musicians’ voices join in seconds

As swiftly as shooting stars split the darkness

The instruments of the cosmos arrive en masse

As this night, too, shall (come to) pass

/

When thrashing, deafening sounds take their toll

And buffeting winds have left the world deformed,

Then gentler rhythms return to soothe the soul 

As still as the calm of the eye of the storm

The Beat of Time now is no longer too fast

As this storm, too, shall (come to) pass

/

When melody’s rise and fall becomes too wistful

And streams of tears have flood in endless motion,

Then the orchestra’s next piece’ll be more blissful

As thoroughly as rivers drain life into oceans

This sorrowful song’s end will come at last

As these tears, too, shall (come to) pass

/

And when death declares us the dust of stars again

When storms take souls back to be one with the wind

When blood and tears return t’where rivers end

And our song’s forgot as ‘membrance of Umer

…………………………………………………………………………………………….. is dimmed

Yes, when all of this has come ‘n passed beyond this place

Then I hope the legacy of pain I caused is also

…………………………………………………………………………………………….. erased