Singing Hearts

 
Oh quiet quiet earth
Beneath your skin there hides
The somber smile of
Hearts gone to rest.

Smiles growing with
Every waking day from
Beneath the dry leaves
Of an outstretched bough.

Hearts like husks
Emulating natures way
To seek truth and dust
Of an enlightened past.

They all beat as one
Through stone and earth
Dividing reality and oblivion
In manners unsurpassed.

Singing hearts of silence
Soar above the cloudless sky
With black and gray harmony
And shadows that never die.