Singing a New Song
Singing a New Song
Today I heard a country song
I hadn’t heard for many years
I closed my eyes and felt the pain
Rememb’ring when we shared our love
Before the days that broke my heart
The memory filled these eyes with tears
My cheeks were wet with spilling tears
the singer singing her sad song
As emptiness invades my heart
I gazed down on the lonely years
For I no longer have your love
And fear I cannot bear the pain
It is a low and cutting pain
My eyes they shed a million tears
As the sad tale of our lost love
Is captured in the singer’s song
I wonder just how many years
To mend a shattered broken heart
But will it ever mend, this heart
Repair itself and ease the pain
I think of all the wasted years
Of all the bleak and useless tears
Just like the lyrics of the song
A troubled, doomed and hopeless love
If you came back to claim my love
could I entrust you with my heart?
Or, like the woman in the song
Would your return bring only pain?
My life forever filled with tears
Throughout more long and lonely years
And would it be as in past years
You’d pour contempt on my true love
You’d laugh at all my pleading tears
And ridicule my breaking heart.
I must find strength to conquer pain
And live no more this mournful song
No wasted years, no cruel false heart
Disloyal love or wounding pain
No hurt or tears in my new song
Sestina----1-song 2-years 3-pain 4-love 5-heart 6-tears
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