Prophets of Rage guitarist Tom Morello paid tribute to the late Chris Cornell on Friday with a poem he shared on Instagram.
Cornell died last May at 52.
Morello was a bandmate for six years in Audioslave. Though the band went on hiatus in 2007 for Cornell to further explore his solo career and eventually reunite Soundgarden, Morello and Cornell remained close friends.
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 seeYou 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
Youre 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
Morello has paid tribute to Cornell several times over the past year.
In September, Morello revealed that there's great unreleased Audioslave music he and his bandmates want to release at some point.
Original article by Andrew Magnotta at iHeartRadio