Heart Strings
I once loved the music from the strings of your heart.
Now, that music is just tearing me apart.
The strings of my heart play I love you.
Your heart strings now play we are through.
Yours is such a hurtful and bitter sound.
Not like the music of the happiness I once found.
The music is saying soon you will be gone.
The saddest music number to come along.
The music of nature has dropped a note.
The music of the stars say “That’s all she wrote.”
One is the saddest experience you’ll ever know.
One is sad. That’s how the music goes.
Two is so much better than one.
That is, when the two can sound like one.
My heart strings now only bring tears.
The strings have rusted through the years.
A happier sound cannot be heard.
One is the only sound. The final word.
Oh, that my heart strings would ever sing again.
So I could feel all the joy from within.
The world would sing a happier tune.
Life music would heal the wound.
But, it seems that can never come true.
For I could never find another you.
———————————————–R.W. Johnson—–(2018)