There is a Music

There is a music heard within the soul,

Melodious but to the mind unknown,

A single note that can contain the whole,

All sounds it seems and yet a sound alone.

It is a drone that makes the silence ring

And the enchanting music of the spheres,

A great cathedral's bell awakening

Or temple gong across the bridge of years.

At birth its music hums in crystal tones,

At death it sings the weary soul to rest

Its chant safe passage through the danger zones

Swelling to a hymn among the blessed.

The mantra of love, it is the distant AUM

That in our hearts now finds its lasting home.