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Lyra13

If you don't learn to write your own story, someone else will write it for you

1 poem·Since April 2016
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Necessity

April 13, 2016

If my life was confined to one pursuit

If I had no ambitions but one

I would find comfort in a single thing

A single solace in an otherwise empty existence

Music would put my heart at ease

Soothe my troubled soul

Fill every broken part

Of a crumbling edifice

Worn away from years of wind and rain

 

I would cling to every cadence

Like a desperate beggar pleading

For one more crust of bread

To feed her starving child

I would wrap myself in symphonies

To battle the cold of night

My fears would be made weightless

Floating into oblivion

As I hummed a tune in passing

I would be content to live

With nothing else but this.

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