Hi Everyone,
This is for
Everyone.
After Henryk Gorecki's Third Symphony.
Sorrowful Songs
Lento I
Dawn
September 1 1939, Poland attacked, at the end of that
day, Europe, the world at war.
With the rise of pain, also music, growling
deep, as the thunder of artillery
rips life from its body, rising to the
sound above all slaughter
a single female voice, from the epiphany of one
note
mother of earth, do not cry, mother support me
mother, the end of
creation.
Lento E Largo II
Death squads, you can hear their beat, nameless
slow but
stampeding, in a chorus of fire
the architecture of known destruction
massive, archaic, as narrative
to those who come after
survive
child, mother
my blood.
Lento III
Death, the death to come, step off the path
to the end of
all things, love, forgiveness.
Mother I am fading, almost gone
one breath
from you, still
the world collapsing
around your
voice
mother.