Now the piano is silent
Now the piano is silent
As the player passed away
And no one likes to play it
Unless someone like to play
To rekindle forgotten melodies
Memories of yesterday
That few would dare to remember
By playing those keys away
Soon the room will become a cellar
Filled with things of past yore
Not surprised if some be thrown out
If not left together like before
The bed now no one’s sleeping
Except someone who dare to stay
Feeling the memories meant to be forever
After its owner passed away
The kitchen will still serve the same food
This time without the owner cooking
Be it beef, chicken, or a vegetable soup
Enough for a stomach filling
But this time different as the owner left
Leaving the premise different
Maybe someone with the same heart as her’s
Will fill the same food with her love left
Hope the food will savour the same old goodness
As what she did those times
Like the piano whose music she played with gladness
Making one or another dance like mine
Now as she passed to eternity
May she guide the way to light
Especially in this time of blight
Hope her love give hope over blight
Thank you for those times oma
May your love filled my emptiness
The way stars shatter the darkness of night.