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Saturday 14 April 2018


I've reworked this.

He Sang

He sang out his sorrows
When he was a boy,
But now he sang out
Great exultations of joy.

He sang out the sun
And they felt its soft warmth,
He sang out the rain,
And nature’s rebirth.

He sang out the stars
As they passed overhead,
And the noises they made,
Some living, some dead.

He sang out the colours
That nobody saw,
And he sang of their music,
And the perfumes they bore.

He sang out vast cities
Made of towers in the sky,
And he sang of winged people,
Whose dream was to fly.

He sang out harsh deserts,
Parched by the sun,
And the life that abounded
When long day was done.

He sang out mighty dragons
That had borne him so high,
He had touched God’s face -
Not a word of a lie!

He sang out the oceans,
And the behemoths he knew,
And all those who heard him
Believed it was true.

He sang out the aliens
And their obscure purple home,
Where on top a still mountain
He had pondered alone.

He sang out new worlds,
New hopes and new dreams,
He sang of what was and
Of what was to be.

He sang out wild magic,
And wove tapestries of charms.
He sang light on dark evils,
To shield folk from harm.

He sang with such power
The people were there,
Standing beside him
In the worlds that he shared.

And as he sang his great visions
Note those people's surprise,
When he slow turned his head
And revealed empty eyes.