My boy has gone away today
He has been going away forever
It seems.

How could I say good bye
When I never said hello?

My boy has gone away today
Leaving me alone
In this hurtful tone
In a minor key,
Bereft of tempo and melody.

Knowing only that I've lost something
Something lacking in me,
Something I was incapable of finding
Without him,
Without his precious presence.

My boy has gone away today
And taken all the music away
The fullness,
From this all too silent place.

The music that was always playing,
In his mind he said,
It would flow out
At times in a whistled melody
Or over the piano keys
In the living room,
And more rarely
through the magical weaving
Of trembling emotional tones
That sang through his quivering violin






I wonder, did he know what power he possessed?
Those simple sounds
Coming from his soul
Gaining strength
As they met with
And moved
The currents
In the surround


Engaging
The drums
Of the ears
And vibrating
The membranes
Of millions of cells
Until all around was alive,
And relating,
In the dance of his making!

Did he know I was in awe of that,
And so so much more

Though I never found the sound
of thankful words for?