When The Music Stops by Laura Rumsey

When The Music Stops

by Laura Rumsey

What do you do when a candle burns out

that has lit your whole world for so long?

What do you do when the music stops

and you can no longer hear that song?

How do you stand while you watch a life fall,

How do you carry on?

What can you do to make it through?

When someone you love is gone?

Where do you look to see some joy

When that face will no longer smile?

What do you do when that voice will not speak

and that beauty and grace have gone out of style?

What do you do with all those memories

that haven't come to mind in a while?

How can you cry without wondering why

you've been put though this trial?

There's a heavenly garden waiting

where every iris will bloom

One beautiful day the sun will shine down

and defy the chains of the tomb,

But for now there is sleep -

a peaceful rest in mother earth's womb

And those eyes and that smile shall surely be seen

when life again will resume

But how does a world recover the loss

of a heart that can no longer care?

Tears and time can heal the hurt

but that burnt candle will always be there

So how do you learn to sing a new song

when someone you love is gone?