Unrequited Love for No One in Particular

Romanza

Is it evening is it morning?
Are you singing are you mourning?
In the dim blue light I see
Icy snowflakes dancing, soaring.

Is a soul around to see me?
Will you kill or will you read me?
In the unknown silence sounds
Water dripping, water seeping.

Is this whisper ambiguity?
Is its purpose just to ruin me?
In my subtle leap of faith
The darkness can't get through to me.

Should this be the place I die?
Should this be the time I fly?
In my unheard conscience echoes
I can do nothing but lie.

If I care to rise and run
Can this failure be undone?
If the morning's yet to come,
I may ride the rising sun.

If the warmth runs through my veins,
Will it take away my pain?
In the numbness of the cold
I like to think I will remain.

Here til yonder horizon breaks
Until my beatless heart awakes
In the frozen ice of winter,
I will wait just for your sake.

Taking in amenity
Sleeping in serenity
Fading nonentity
Fading melody
Elegie

*

A whisper just at first
Now a sudden, flaming burst
Pink orange golden shining sky
Leaped in faith begun to fly
Never stopping never dying
Never gloating never crying
Never fleeing from the truth
When my fearful mind is lying
Never letting my mistakes
Drown me in their sorrowful lakes
Never letting darkness take
What has been so hard to make

And now bathing in the sunlight
Warmth is seeping through my veins
And now again sitting upright
I can see where I've been lain

And I'm standing on a mountain
Looking down the treacherous slope
Sinking down like an earthy fountain
I somehow climbed that without a rope?

Majestic splendor shining bright
Miraculous joy after perilous fight
The whisper I heard was right
The whisper in the predawn light

*

As the evening closes in
I can sit down and rescind
Even when I see their grin
I know it's just the wicked wind

I can sleep here for a while
I am safe here up so high
On my lonely, rocky pile
Somewhere high up in the sky

I've gone missing somewhere below
But it's better that I stay
Though they'll miss me there, I know
I had nothing left to say

I am glad I had the time
And I'm glad to be sublime
Now in harmony, now in rhyme
Now the end of my long climb

I take a final sigh
I take my time to say goodbye
With the darkness all around
I must not utter a sound

But the peace has come at last
After years of hardship past
All the wondering in the past
I have finally breathed my last

Not sinking, only rising
Forever.