Crescendo

the orchestra played full volume in the theatre of her mind thoughts and emotions vied for undisturbed attention but her misplaced applause failed to settle restless blind screens decoupages tapestries and fabrications of her imagination whole movies and symphonies arranged on fast auto replay spooled forward and backward until vision blurred into one epic film tear of overload exhaustion and impenetrable void hungry children uncivil wars deforestation xenophobia fission bombs subjugation oppression marginalization genocides homophobic attacks power money greed opulence decadence and seeming banality of evil for the charade that life was she needed to close plenty of curtains unveil at the same time what had been hidden behind a solid façade when the cacophony climaxed in crescendo staccato and discord she knew that her voice of conscience would lead her the way 03rd June 2021