The Death

 

“The Death”

Have you ever longed,

Yearned to hear a song?

Knowing as you search,

It has never been sung?

 

Have you ever paged through the dictionary,

Just longing, searching for a word?

Hoping, scratching letters in the dark,

For something spoken but never heard?

   

I am searching, I am looking,

For something never seen.

Hoping that there is something,

Somewhere in between.

  

I suppose at the bottom of the lung,

While the body cravingly pleads for one last breath.

That must be the longing and the hoping,

Just prior to the death.

  

Danny Gunter

07-07-2011