~The Last Violin ~

By WordWulf, 24th Jan 2011 | Follow this author | RSS Feed | Short URL http://nut.bz/1odb2l3d/
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~A symphony sings at your cradle~an Ozarks sweet serenade~rocking the night with his fiddle~the player whose aging chords fade~

~The Last Violin ~

~I Violin~
If the wood be my face, I would howl, I would
hasten myself toward glory
The grain of my skin would tell where I’d been
the sweat and the tears of my story
Tie your metal strings, turn them tight into wings
Cross your bow; give me lavender voice
as each note sings my bones, a God come to own
me, you play me, a song of your choice
as I die, as.. I violin

~The Last Violin ~
They said the night was behind us
whose tears had only begun
did you see the one they held pris’ner
Did you hear the songs left unsung
and there just above morning
they danced decades gone by
lovers beyond this world of chance
caught in the winking moon’s eye
I hear the strains of the last violin
and the notes each chord while it plays
echoing through my mind ‘til it sings
the last violin of our days

Sleep is the ghost we’ve been chasing
wearing faces left over again
strangers in masks of our choosing
haunting places we’ve never been
and time the present reminder
of pasts even yet to be shared
quicker than they are occurring
wonder were we really there
I hear the strains of the last violin
and the notes each chord while it plays
echoing through my mind ‘til it sings
the last violin of our days

A symphony sings at your cradle
an Ozarks sweet serenade
rocking the night with his fiddle
the player whose aging chords fade
You’ve learned to dance on without him
an angel whose feet kiss the floor
and all the others stop dancing
the last violin plays no more
I hear the strains of the last violin
and the notes each chord while it plays
echoing through my mind ‘til it sings
the last violin of our days

Meet the author

WordWulf
Tom Sterner lives in Redding, California and Arvada, Colorado with wife Kathy. He has been published in numerous magazines and on the internet, including Howling Dog Press/Omega, Skyline Literary Review, The Storyteller, and Flashquake. His interne...(more)