Caring 🫂

SAD SONGS

Once there was a boy who couldn’t speak but owned

a music box that held every song in all the world.

One day he met a girl who had never heard a single

melody in her entire life and so he played her his

favourite song. He watched while her face lit up with

wonder as the music filled the sky and the poetry of

lyrics moved her in a way she had never felt before.

He would play his songs for her day after day and

she would sit by him quietly-never seeming to

mind that he could only speak to her through song.

She loved everything he played for her but of them

All loved the sad songs best. So he began to

play them more and more until eventually, sad songs

were all she would hear.

One day, he noticed it had been a very long time since her last smile.

When he asked her why, she took both his hands in hers and kissed them warmly.

She thanked him for his gift of music and poetry but above all else—for showing her sadness because she had known neither of these things before him.

But it was now time for her to go away to find someone who could show her what happiness was.

Do you remember the song that was playing the night we met?

No, but I remember every song I have heard since you left.

@peacewriter51