tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3367902.post-937848652003-05-04T22:52:00.000-07:002003-05-05T16:43:56.000-07:00“For whom do you sing this dismal dirge, <br />In tones so long and low? <br />Whose death do you mourn? <br />Whose still heart has stopped your own?” <br /> <br />“My Emptiness died, and Friend, I urge <br />Your absence when you know <br />That though I'm torn, I do not mourn; <br />Her death has brought me hope. <br /> <br />“From sorrow it has flung my heart, <br />Into a deep despair, <br />Yet in this despair there is a light, <br />And sweet, sweet life hangs in the air. <br /> <br />“In this life I know not where to start. <br />This Freedom I cannot bear; <br />But She gives me strength and love and might. <br />For myself that’s beyond compare. <br /> <br />“My voice is lifting up the pain <br />And purging it through song. <br />The pain that Emptiness brought to me, <br />That made me feel so lost, so wrong. <br />. <br />“Never will I feel that again, <br />For Freedom makes me strong. <br />Her love holds me closely, powerfully. <br />It’s what I’ve needed all along. <br /> <br />“So Friend, you need to understand <br />That though this hymn is sad, <br />Without it I would cease to live, <br />And, in truth, it makes me glad. <br /> <br />“Freedom lent her loving hand <br />And laughing then began. <br />There is nothing more that She could give <br />Than that which makes me glad. <br /> <br />“I know not how Emptiness came to end, <br />Just that She had to go; <br />She’d forced me almost to the edge, <br />Where I lost my ability to cope. <br /> <br />“Emptiness is gone forever, my Friend, <br />And has left me here to grow. <br />Leave now in the knowledge <br />That Her death has brought me hope” <br />Diamondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11678736686716927909noreply@blogger.com