Grief

Text: Poem Gaius Valerius Catullus (tr. Rabinowitz)

Grief reached across the world to get me.

Sadness carries me across the seas

and countries to your grave, my brother,

to offer the only gift I still can give you,

words you will not hear.

Fortune has taken you from me,

fortune, you, no reason, nothing fair.

I didn’t deserve losing you.

Now in the silence since

as in the ancient custom of our people,

I say the mourner’s prayer,

do the final kindness,

accept and understand it, brother.

My head aches from crying forever.

Goodbye.

PERFORMANCE  SUGGESTIONS: This song works best at the end of a set.

Hearthfire  2:28

Love Song. 3:26

Grief  3:48