Day 226: Fiddler Free

---

∴

fiddler, friend, my fiddler, free,
play your tune out
and i’ll dance with thee

for no such love in chords did ring
as those with kind, weight-sharing we sing.

 

fiddler, friend, my fiddler, free
there’s a note-by-note bridge
that few can see

it climbs up in half steps
and seems out-of-tune,
and though time drives it forward,
it leads back to our youth

when a hand was a hand
and it came with good will
and a hold made safe
the space our friends might fill

and fill it we did, with innocent love
not scandal nor fear nor shame from above

 

fiddler, friend, my fiddler, free
write me a song in a different key

play me the way
the music should be.
and freely, with gladness,

i’ll dance with thee.

∴

 

 

---