Poeme Symphonique For 100 Metronomes - Ligeti

Inspired by composition '100 Metronomes' personalised as demonstration of unhidden anxiety. Poem enhanced by listening to the music. Clatter with undisguised chaos Frightening alarm builds Recognition of order and sense at core Settling occurs Reason descends Pattern forms Eased to swaying rhythm Visions of horses trains wheat feet rain Clapping hands and open hearts Raindrops slow Gently coaxed Disappearing horse drawn coach Broken gutter heart stands still briefly More pelting hailstones Clatter of bones Eyes snapping shut Beat forms March starts People leave Streets deserted Rain falls Joins tears Fall down Sleep oh troubled sleep Ticking clock So out of time Roughly take my arm Chopped to pieces Reassembled Amalgamation Taking shape To forever fall apart And seek chaos Layer after layer Rocks and stones Rocks and stones Rocks and stones Metronome of lost time Catches up Find beat Repeats Disorganises The order that time insists upon