A Strange Kind Of Beautiful

The paintings Turner threw away

The greatest one he never made

A Chopin impromptu that nobody heard

But him

A sunken ship

That won't be found

A falling tree that makes no sound

The way that you are with no one around but me

To touch a frozen waterfall

A flower at a funeral

A strange kind of beautiful

Singing to an empty hall

Silence at the curtain call

You are unusual to me

The information in a kiss

Tells of things the words have missed

A moment of you that last on my lips each night

To see a star with naked eyes

And know it has already died

Or a comet fly only once in a lifetime

To know just enough

To know we know nothing at all

To touch a frozen waterfall

A flower at a funeral

A strange kind of beautiful

Singing to an empty hall

Silence at the curtain call

You are unusual to me

Tears of emperors as they fall

The sound of soldiers at the door

A strange kind of beautiful