Tom Morello Shares A Poem In Tribute To Chris Cornell

Rage Against The Machine member Tom Morello and former Audioslave bandmate has come out with poem for the late Chris Cornell who has recently passed in a tragic death. There have been an outpour of eulogies and posts about Cornell after his passing of the front man for the legendary grunge band, Soundgarden.

The touching poem by Morello shows what impact he had on his fans as a musician, but also the bond that the two have shared throughout the time they spent together, despite some of their differences. The two worked and performed together when they formed the Audioslave group back in 2001. Audioslave (compromised of former Rage Against the Machine members Tim Commerford and Brad Will as well) was a successful group that devoted their music to straight up rock sounds. But tensions flared among the group and that led to the break up and the departure of Chris Cornell. In fact, he told MTV back in 2007 that the business end of Audioslave was going nowhere and they couldn’t find any common ground in their artistic visions.

But, Morello has seemed to put the past behind him with touching words and dedications to the life of a talented artist and friend, showing how Cornell has touched artists throughout his long and successful musical career.

Read the poem below:

Rolling Stone has released the following piece by Morello.

You’re a prince, you’re a snare, you’re a shadow

You’re twilight and star burn and shade

You’re a sage, you’re a wound shared, you’re masked

You’re a pillar of smoke, you’re a platinum heart

You’re a brush fire, you’re caged, you’re free

Your vision pierces, you do not see

You are pieces strewn on the hillside

You’re open armed, you’re armed, you’re true

You’re a revealer of visions, you’re the passenger, you’re a never fading scar

You’re twilight and star burn and shade

You’re the secret veiled, you’re the secret revealed, you’re surrounded no more

You’re not there, now you’re always here

You’re a handsome groom, a loving father, a haunted stairwell

You’re the clear bell ringing, the mountains echo your song

Maybe no one has ever known you

You are twilight and star burn and shade