A Song for the Soul

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Bright, blinding

Merciless lights

Dark, lifeless faces

Empty stage

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Alone on the mountain

Above the world

Alone, alone!

No one can hear me

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Notes come this way

Closer, closer…

Pitch forming clearly here--

Wait, now--fading…

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Disintegrated.

And I am alone again

With my soul, and

A note inside…

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Heart pounds

And wants to escape

"Flee now," it says,

"It’s not too late to quit!"

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But that note--

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It climbs to the top

On a breath of air

A steady, clear pitch

It forms a song

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Mind is dead

Body is numb

And the song soars

Freely

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It is over, and

I hear the cheers,

And clapping, but

It is over.