Orpheus laid to rest
nightingales serenade his flight
flooding the darkness
a sad refrain
his lyre still singing
mournfully
placed among the stars
as my darkness is my lyre
the music of my soul
and my words my nightingales
singing melancholy in endless night
© Ann Bagnall

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