Tino & Marianne

Something I wrote sometime back when life was a bit rough.

Sorrow, come and be my joy
Join me here for midday tea
'Neath the shade of willow wheep
Share my broken company.

Leave me not for gladder souls
Share with me thy sweet refrain
Cold would be the carefree heart
That from sorrow would abstain

In thy sage and learned soul
Precious jew'ls lay hidden deep
Diamonds rare and rubies that
Make those born in mirth seem cheap.

Would the faint inner churning
Lend to me a written prayer
Cause a dried and barren well
With thy waters more to bear

When my soul has given forth
All the sweetness sorrow brings
Then let joyusness return
Join the singing my soul sings.