You may not have always known,
That I have never been alone.
Music resonating in my mind
Songs from heaven, poetic rhymes.

Did you not hear those melodies,
Brought to me on a summer's breeze?
Or hear the sweet tunes in the night,
Lulling me to sleep without respite.

My tiny fingers touched those strings
And in my mind delivering,
A gift which is now a part of me.
No one can take, no one can see.

Laid upon me as a boy,
The guitar, forever my favorite toy.
And now the dog no longer wails,
She simply sits and wags her tail.

~Pate~