Memories of 2015

I want to thank Eva for sending us the lyrics to her song from the Song-Sharing Circle.
I have added the “thank you” I have made for her (click pic to enlarge).

BABEL

1.) I crept out on the ledges
to hear them call and cry.Babel
I huddled up and shivered
underneath the looming sky,
and I fumbled for prayers and poems
in words uncouth and wrong,
in that time before Music,
in an age before Song.

Now my tower’s grown quiet,
all its splendor undone.
I walk the crumbling spires
in the peaceful evening sun,
I am drifting through echoing chambers,
down the hallways and years,
calling out now and then
to wind, God and men,
but no-one hears
in this Tower of Tears.

2.) I once was a poet
ere the Coming of Strife,
back when words had meaning
and resounded with truth and life.
Under night skies, I call out new star names
but those sounds don’t belong,
and nights are so long
in an age before Song.

So I search for the traces
of my language of old,
baked in bricks by sunlight,
dreaming deeply in rooms untold,
and I whisper to arches and stairways,
seeking measure and rhyme,
but my plea sounds in vain,
for no mem’ries remain
of Babel’s prime
in this Tower of Time.

3.) It came like a torrent,
seized me in my sleep.
Was it God? Was it madness?
engulfing my wild and deep,
so, entranced, I stepped out on the ledges
into a wind warm and strong,
and I opened my heart,
felt the world give a start – – –
and I called out in Song,
a call made of song.

They flocked in from the distance,
yearning in their eyes,
listening with a hunger
underneath the open skies,
until the tune embraced them
like a billowing sail
filled by thousands of voices
like thunder and rain and sea and gale,
and when our music resounded
through halls of brick and wood
through dream, mind and soul
now once more made whole,
we understood. . .
in this towering song.
Our Tower of Song.

. . . come, walk along
in this Tower of Song.

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