A Tribute

I do not usually post other people's poetry here, but I simply had to show you this. It's a little long but quite impressive. And it's written by a Smith student! This is "Catastrophic Comparison."

What If I Lose My Song?

What if I lose my song?
What if someday too soon,
I search within my heart of hearts
But cannot find a tune?

What if I get confused
And every lilting note
Gets jumbled up inside my mind
And never leaves my throat?

What if I lose the words
To say just what I mean
And henceforth can only describe
What my bare eyes have seen?

Or what if I can play
But never can be heard?
Pour out my heart into a song
But never sing a word?

What if I try too hard
To edit my song down
And, doing so, I lose the purity
Of what I'd found?

What if too late I find
That I'd rather be mute
Than chase the song and learn
I'd lost all else in its pursuit?