Without Worth

I wanted wings with which to fly

To conquer worldly space

To destroy the roadblocks that in my path lie

To defy the human race.

I wanted to run like the speed of light

To streak across the seas

To bind all the elements in my own might

With the whisper of a breeze.

I wanted the moon and all of the stars,

I wanted them all for my own.

I wanted to sail on winds afar

And have my heart be called my home

I wanted to reach the farthest reach

To scale the tallest tower

I wanted the song my soul to breach

And to smell the rarest flower.

There was nothing to stop me from building a bridge

From destroying entire towns

Then lifting then up from their ashes rich

And rebuilding them with sound.

I wanted to capture thunder’s sound

The lightning’s frightening power

I’d make the rain come and fall to the ground

And the earth would quake at the shower.

I wanted to feel the most passionate love

I wished for nothing but the burn

The sanctified hunger concocted above

Of my limits I would learn.

I wanted all things to give them to you

I wanted to hand them away.

To give you the world would mean everything

But you left my side today.

So now the world’s worth has gone painfully dry

There is nothing that holds value still

The days and the weeks and the months will pass by

But the silver bell’s sound will be shrill.

The wings that I wanted will lie in debris

The candles I burn remain lit.

There’s no gold bright enough to return you to me

All my dreams are shrunk and ill-fit.

Without you here to give all the earth

I find my own matter so small.

For where is the meaning, where all of the worth

If you’ll never share it at all.