When I Pray to You, Words re Not Enough

A religious and philosophical poem about music as a kind of prayer: When I pray to You, words are not enough. They fail to tell You what is in my heart Until I add the midrash of my art.* Music is feeling filtered through fire, Purified passion, molten desire. Music is sunlight that shines from the soul. Words come in fragments, music is whole. When I pray to You, words are not enough. My supplication turns into a song, Asking for the grace for which I long. Music’s a gift from Your heart to mine. As I write it, our spirits combine. Your gift to me twice given proves: Through it I give You the gift of my love.