Hear me
read
the poem as
an MP3 file.
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read
the poem as
an MP4 file.
Audio and Video Music:
Elegy.
By Wayne Jones.
Music free to use
at YouTube.
Copyright by
Nicholas Gordon
When I pray to You, words are not enough.
They fail to tell You what is in my heart
Until I add the midrash of my art.*
Music is feeling filtered through fire,
Purified passion, molten desire.
Music is sunlight that shines from the soul.
Words come in fragments, music is whole.
When I pray to You, words are not enough.
My supplication turns into a song,
Asking for the grace for which I long.
Music's a gift from Your heart to mine.
As I write it, our spirits combine.
Your gift to me twice given proves:
Through it I give You the gift of my love.
Copyright by Nicholas Gordon. Free for personal or non-commercial use.
*For this image I am indebted to Michael Isaacson, whose book, Music as Midrash, introduced me to the idea.
