ONLY A CRY


by Nathaniel edward Briner


Ivory

Ebony

Make the mallets swing

Together

Side by side

Each, be ready to ring

Out

Apart from

One another’s being

Alone

Only a cry

But together you can sing

I am

Among you

Hear, I am the string

Bound

Inside a cavern

Awaiting the hammer’s sting

Here

I am struck

The hand of a mighty Being

This

More than a cry

That all of us would sing

Together.