And In The River Sleeps...

A song fades into silence
as a voice is deprived of air
Waves crash on shores with violence
but the sands & time can't care

And in the river sleeps
what once swam through its deeps
Committed to the depths below
the lighthouse dimly weeps
into waters far below
And in the river sleeps
the light that will not glow

Shores sigh with the echoes of the tide
as waters fall and rise
and the anchors must abide
whatever water tries
And in the river sleeps
what in memory slowly dies

And in the river sleeps
the song without the sound
and the silence that it keeps
is the loss that's never found
And in the river sleeps
the past of the profound
with the folly that has drowned