Impressions

We see you there and we ask why

Shouldn’t we just pass you by?

 

Life lessons tell us this is bad

We know; our mind’s eye is sad

 

Experience says this can’t go well

We’re all here so what do you tell

 

We close our eyes expecting mostly nil

We listen, then silence, all is still

 

We look, to be sure you’re still there

Holding our gaze we wait with despair

 

Then it happens, your mouth opens

The sounds, as if from the heavens

 

We peek; to see, is to believe

Caught in the moment we perceive

 

Black again descends, we float

Preconceptions we try to demote

 

We’re in awe and a little red

The voice, I mean nobody said

 

From the shell our eyes do see 

That an angels voice doth speak

 

Beauty so pure we have to account

Speechless, only tears flow about

 

Smiles press our lips as you sing

Pride tucked deep this is the real thing

 

Thanks for the courage to stand there

And let us who question, even dare

 

Impressions led us astray once again

You sang for us as if life depend

 

And we were in awe, even shocked

What did we know? We mocked

 

Pure as the driven snow, you shared

We quivered by the truth you bared

 

With nothing to lose you may have guessed

We went away in awe, thoroughly impressed