Things I Learned from Melody

Wild as the wind

Vast as the sea

Was the magic I learned

When I met Melody

Each summer she'd arrive


Each autumn she would vanish


And took with her a piece of me

All winter I was banished

Her words were like air to me

An intangible necessity

And through her lovely naive eyes

I saw what I could be

When I realized she was gone for good

My ground turned solid as smoke

Without her air. Without her song.

How was I to cope

A world without her?

Pointless. And utterly absurd.

And if she was not here with me

Her song would go unheard

Then one dark day in the plinking rain

Before I could waste away

I heard a songbirds melody 

And saw why she couldn't stay

And though the sun is gray

And though the air is gone

There is still a distant shimmer

When I can faintly hear her song

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