"Ballad"

Screaming in still sadness

Soundless reverberations

Echoing through every line

Of lovers' broken tryst

Listening to the mournful cries

Fluted in every word

Winding through pathways

Sing verses long of battle

A fallen soldier's name

Wisps of sadness captured

Betrayal, love, moonlit gloom

Tales of fog, dew, rapture

Rivers of centuries lost

Flowing to an endless sea of thought

Crashing waves sound ship's doom

Stories held long by phrases

Lisped by young and sung by old

Passed on and on through vanishing ages

Harmony of legends forgotten.