When I Pray to You, Words Are Not Enough

Audio and Video Music:
Elegy.
By Wayne Jones.
Music free to use
at YouTube.

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.

*For this image I am indebted to Michael Isaacson, whose book, Music as Midrash, introduced me to the idea.