Legacy Anthems

When sorrow gathers, heavy and near,
A sacred song learns how to hear.
Where words fall short and silence aches,
Music holds what grief can’t take.

It moves where language cannot stay,
A lantern lit beyond the day.
A tender bridge from loss to breath,
A hand extended through the depth.

For when a life slips out of sight,
Memory searches for its light.
A name still warm upon the air,
A love that refuses to not to care.

Music remembers what time lets fade,
The laugh, the courage, the way they stayed.
It shapes a story soft and true,
So love has somewhere left to go to.

Grief arrives like a sudden night,
An eclipse swallowing the light.
Yet still a melody dares to rise,
Carrying tears where mercy lies.

It steadies hearts that beat too fast,
Soothes the shock of then and last.
Not to erase the weight we feel,
But give it form that helps us heal.

A legacy is more than name or stone,
It’s how life is not separate or alone.
In rhythm held, in harmony,
A life becomes a memory free.

No monument of marble stands,
As long as song is in human hands.
Flowers fade and words grow thin,
But melodies invite spirit in.

They cross the years, they cross the seas,
They sit with us, although quietly.
In kitchens, vigils, sleepless nights,
They keep the loved one within sight.

So when the dark feels hard to bear,
And grief has nowhere left to rest there,
A song becomes a place to stay —
Where love can speak, and pain can pray.

This is the promise gently kept:
To honor those for whom we wept.
To give grief breath, and love a way —
And turn the longest night to day.