If I Had A Song

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation, and go to the grave with the song still in them. - Thoreau

if i had a song

it would sing of my struggles

echo my pain

washing you in the remnants of fallen rain

if i had a song

it would show you my heart

carrying you away to where i hide

imprisoned by implacable pride

if i had a song

it would sing of forgiveness

croon of love

gently push rather than shove

if i had a song

it would be strong

annihilating wrong

lifelong

if i had a song

it would tell of faith

all that it means

all that it cleans

if i had a song

it would hold your hand

telling you everything will be okay

giving you a better day

if i had a song

it would never end

drying your tears

eternally whispered in your ears

if i had a song

it would love you back

calling out your name

erasing shame

if i had a song

everyone would know it

even birds would sing it

making it a genuine hit

if i had a song

my tears would write it

i'd let you strum

pounding  a drum

if i had a song

it would live on your tongue

keeping you young

changing spring to sprung

if i had a song

it would be a duet

i'd sing it with god

so you'd be awed

if i had a song

it would never go away

strong

never wrong

if I had a song

it would be number one

i'd play it with reckless abandon

it wouldn't even be a song

it would be an anthem

if i had a song

Author's Note

"Christianity only hopes. It has hung its harp on the willows, and cannot sing a song in a strange land. It has dreamed a sad dream, and does not yet welcome the morning with joy. The mother tells her falsehoods to her child, but, thank heaven, the child does not grow up in its parent's shadow. Our mother's faith has not grown with her experience. Her experience has been too much for her. The lesson of life was too hard for her to learn." - Thoreau

Reviews

[Helen]

I think you have a wonderful song. There's lots in here I love, but these are my three favourite verses:

if i had a song
it would sing of my struggles
echo my pain
washing you in the remnants of fallen rain

if i had a song
it would show you my heart
carrying you away to where i hide
imprisoned by implacable pride

if i had a song
it would tell of faith
all that it means
all that it cleans

[Pete]

!!!! as i always say, you can't go wrong with a song.
thanks for sharing helen ... :)