True Moon

Featured art by Cyril Rolando. Click title image to visit his studio.

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Frédéric Chopin “Waltz No. 1 in D-Flat Major, Op. 64, “Minute Waltz”

Time and space came unstitched at the seams
As I dreamed the little dream I dreamed to dream
The scene was set and better yet I never one time made request
Skies were painted every shade
My eyes were widened
Veins ablaze
Sinew
Tendon
Flesh and bone
Each bespoke impassioned tone
Under the same moon
Enthroned the faculty of sight to flight anew

My deepest soul, the river
Bled in every shade and hue
Rainbows reached to take their fill
Moon beams steeped to over spill
Everything fell still
My tethered skin then bade adieu
Fell at my feet as I waded through vermilion tears
Wept of the resilient peers to whom I owe my own

Suddenly, frontiers perched at the forefront of a focal zone of hopeful tone the likes of which invited stitchless seams
Light and shade in braid paraded favoured reins to rimless dream
As I dared to dream this little dream I cared to dream
Time and space both fell away and I reclined to some place in-between
Skies were painted every shade
My eyes were widened
Veins ablaze
Sinew
Tendon
Flesh and bone
Each baroque of undertone
Under the same moon
I bled in every shade and hue
My deepest soul, the river
Had come home
To you.