Sympathy Can you hear a sound of sympathy as it rolls across the land? Can you feel the pain and pity tremble fiercely in your hand? And the noises of the heartache grinding deeper to my soul, Seem to echo through my mind as I walk blindly, never whole. And as I squeeze into the crevices within your harsh and oft cruel eyes, You erase your mind, your memory, and hide the truth in lies. Can you taste the wine of victory in your goblet carved from glass? Can you find a smile to ease the tears, or cause the pain to pass? And the light that fills the darkness of a life that's filled with pain, Seems to conjure disillusions that burn deep within your brain. But life's symphony sustains you as I walk with you through life Along a stone road built on misery from which none can see the light. Though time itself is motionless and life alone proceeds, Death shall come to both of them as life itself receeds. And hearts of stone shall turn to sand as life shall slowly pass, And forge in time a sculpted form known as an hourglass. And with this sand of broken dreams, my love shall drift away, To seek, to form a man of god, in gently molded clay. To pain and grief I speak my prayer in words, a broken voice So sweetly echoed every dawn as songbirds wake, rejoice, And through their songs, you'll find I've died, You'll taste the tears that I have cried, You'll feel the pain and pity tremble fiercely in your hand And you'll hear the sound of sympathy as it crawls upon the land. April 15, 1976 |