Bard

Oh my friend you sing tonight

to some soul have brought delight

some empty night you may have filled

with happiness the world has killed

 

to entertain you've taken part

and hoped to lift a heavy heart

but if you hope their heart to lift

priceless truth the only gift

 

Master musician a story you tell

understanding lies within your spell

weaving the listening upon the ears

the sorrow of their own life's fears

 

You know not all is as it seems

the world imparts it's own dreams

into your well you have dipped

upon it's wine have listeners sipped

 

music vibrates it's chords upon the soul

can tear it apart or help make whole

the message that you choose to give

can impart death or light to live

 

Commune with God upon your bed

the tenderness of love don't leave unsaid

with seduction to gain worldly treasure

and lure mankind to lesser creature

 

Things you hold within your hands

with instruments tones and word understands

a piper who leads minds on a passage

what should be the call of the message

 

With the song of the Bard is God concerned

where it leads and what teaching is learned

harken to you do the children of youth

be careful to impart only the truth

 

source "The pied Piper"