The Lost Melody

For all life long

I chased just one song

The lyrics that haunted me at night

The tune to everything happy and bright.

But as the days wore into years,

And I smiled countless smiles

And fought back flowing tears,

One thing stood back out all the while.

Many a time I thought I'd found my song

Some of it was right, but mostly was wrong,

So I kept on looking with my ear on the ground,

Always alert, never missing a sound.

But one day I gave up, the quest seemed too hard,

I sat down under a shade, pretended to be a bard,

Took all the pieces that I had had so far,

Put them to a beat, played my guitar.

And while it still felt like a bit was missing 

It sounded so intimate, like two lovers kissing,

That's when I happened to chance upon you,

What new tune did you bring, I hadn't a clue.

But I grabbed your hand and off we went

A whole new world, new colours, new scent.

And then I sang my song, yet imperfect and incomplete,

And all it took to make it whole was the rhythm of your heartbeat.