Friday, December 10, 2021

Opera Is Art

 

lost in dreams, moving faster, laughing at rain; so self-concluded, so irregular, bathing in screams.

it was early, to lose childhood, to become some creature; roaming haunted havens, reaching inside, released to invisibility.

love as it grows, science as it decides, more into math, rewriting the evening, a ghost in dungeons.

more in vacuums, accused of resistance, on one path, most unsteady, another path, most lonely.

tales told tragically. shrouds sewn secretly. so much in art, arranged to go deeper, damn near undecided.

the life of a phoenix, stitching wisdom wings, seated in utter loudness.

it seemed simple, gathering roses, the elephant is a tamed monster: rattling chains, breaking fetters, acting insanely;

houses rumble, curtains mean nothing, no place on earth is private.

trying to conclude existence, made pensive, alluding to myth—as it seems, if it became—some loathly flight into silence.

heard about innocence, tried to feel differently, it seems like illusion.

some perception, underpinned in fresh mud, soothing as it might insist.

once it was, it became apparent, once it was spoken, it was realized as hidden. 

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