WL Schuett

Hymns of Previous Souls

walking up this abandoned road 

are the footsteps lost in time 

where borrowed memories float 

and ancient bells do chime 

 

the holiness of a lost cathedral 

when you push the doors aside 

the mysteries of a fallen age 

their prayers felt deep inside 

 

hear the songs of the previous souls 

their melodies soft but clear 

singing in a mourning choir 

those hymns we hold so dear 

 

sermons here are set in wood 

as they reverberate through the wall 

layers of dust and dirt have settled on 

the teachings of Peter and St Paul 

 

this ancient barn once 

so majestic and revered 

collapsing on its own axeis 

has slowly all but disappeared 

 

solemly chant the ancestral names 

of all those who came before 

who worked , lived and loved 

but who can worship here no more