Taking Melodies Through

Have you written songs which ring a melody

of ending? And if it does, would you hold a song

just for me 

or would it be lost in among the scores of others?

I'd write poems just to spell out departure

from the arms which were so familiar

and then be ready to hold them so close

to my heart, they burn

and singe the edges of my mind. And 

when I take a step back,

I'd realise I'd gone too far to ever return.

So when you compose the next song

for the ears of people you'll never meet,

think about where the melody comes from,

think about why the tune takes a downturn,

think about me

and how I live somewhere in the air

translated through you.