Tune Without A Song
By Tara Nicole Walker
9.15.2002
Dedicated to Danielle Collins – I have the answers, but don't know how to tell them to you.
What my heart yearns to say to you
I cannot speak
And what I long to convey to you
The words escape me
There is no way to price
The immeasurable pain that you bear
And no way to show you
That I know what you see
While my heart reaches out to you
My hands seem to fall short
And while my mind continues to seek for a soul
It always comes back empty handed
I flounder helplessly
As if watching a close one pass before my eyes
I have no control to help
For my eyes can but watch you in this trap, stranded
What can I do but watch and search for words?
What can I do but hope?
What can I do but whisper repeated prayers?
What can I do but long?
I am helpless to help
Yet I have the answers if only I could find the words
I have come so close and yet so far
Like a tune without a song