hush now heart
it’s time for you to go away
your song is much too loud
for fragile souls to stay

hush now heart
you beat too strong to contain
your  untidy unruly rhythm
could drive a man insane

hush now heart
can’t  you see you’re in a cage
the ivory bars define your world
but still you seek to roil and rage

hush now heart
you define the start
of each one’s fragile flame
your’s is the bell, that sound
marks the beginning of the game
forget my words and pound
like a war drum you are bound
drive forward sad troops that lag behind
become sentinel in dusty chambers of the mind

crash and crash again
till life pours forth like love
and every eye in heaven above
looks down in wonder
at the birth of hope in the dark