I dropped pennies down an endless well
They began singing a tuneless song
As they hit the bottom clink clink clink
So lovely yet so wrong
The well doesn’t have an ending
No place for a penny to play
It’s soulful sullen instrument
So what’s the melody I hear ringing today?
Maybe it’s just kind courtesy
All in well because I paid
With my tinny tiny copper coins
For me the well, it sang
And what a morose song it played
With words of loss and fear
It told a tragic tale
A tragic tale I swear was told though no words built homes my ears
The tune made my feet sink into the mud
At the bottom of the bottomless well
The hairs on my head brushed the roof of the sky
‘Til the song turned into a yell
Then rather than fall, I floated up
From the pit that leaves this earth
This was years ago but still I remember how it felt
To have a penny, a song, a peaceful mind all at the same worth