In the dark times will there also be singing?
Yes, there will be singing. About the dark times.
Bertolt Brecht
Give me bird song
to lighten the sadness,
the coming dark.
Give me rainfall
to sweeten November grass.
Give me long summer nights
and Danish choirs singing
into the light that lasts
until September.
Give me a woman in black
playing piano in the shadows
where we cannot see her.
Let the melody and music
float down to us below,
beside the crooked house
with tilting stairs,
white linens.
Give me what is broken, but true.
For I have grown to hate
a song that hits all the right noes
but has no blackedged heart.
Let my brokenness
be bird song.
Jennifer Boire
