Missing Melody
by
Nathanael Smith

The eternal song sung all around
I was the smallest portion thereof
As I sung I felt you smile
I turned and found that it was love

The song swelled all around
I harmonized with you and laughed
For never was the mortal blessed
With such heavenly beauty, craft

Then silence fell across my soul
My inner being cried in pain
For nowhere in the vastest horde
Could I find your voice or stave

There was a missing melody
Screaming through the air
For what there was, now dissapeared
And the beautiful song nowhere

My own lines lost, my mind also
I search now forever for you
Finding naught of you but lies
Until I lie down prepared to die, too

Somewhere in the singing horde
I heard your melody again
But the song I heard, before the grave
Was an echo of that which was beyond

My body lie on the cold ground
And rotted, fed all the death
But I was free, to sing with you
That song beneath the earth