The Singer

Love soared from his lips in Major C
    But grief has set his soft heart free
Despair has furrowed his delicate brow
    So the singer sings of nothing now;
 
Hope scalded his throat in Major F
    But all his hope has froze to death
He takes but the breaths his sobs allow
    And the singer sings of nothing now;
 
He sang in sorrow in C minor
    But now, it seems, the pain’s much finer
The answer is plain as to why and how
    that the singer sings of nothing now.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2017

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