All of my life, I’ve been singing

From birth until thirty-years-young

A lyric for all situations

A tune on the ‘tip of my tongue’

I sang in the choir as a school-girl

And at church at the ‘top of my lungs’

Never a moment of silence

Just a girl with a heart full of songs

I sang because music inspired me

I sang through the good times and hard

When I sang it was always uplifting

In the bath, down the pub, in the car.

One day, the dark overwhelmed me

All black, like the octopus-witch

Stole the songs I’d collected inside me

Altered my mind and my spirit

Now there’s no music within me

Now that the songs have all gone

I’m afraid if I sing just a little

I will let out too much emotion

These days are ever-so empty

The weeks are ever-so long

My heart is ever-so heavy

Since darkness stole all of my songs

All I do now is just listen

And watch all my friends as they sing

Longing inside to stand with them

In the Choir I used to be in