Suspended In Time

He was standing there, like a painting by Raphael, Above a parking garage, for show, For all to see, behind a bay window, A forgotten resident of our Daytona Beach Hotel. And I stared up in awe and dismay, Stunned, for *Ariadne, in her grand design A spell in time had placed upon this piano divine; And to my child I said: “Look! There’s Kay!” Like you my old friend solitary he waits Suspended, timeless, his noble frame Caught behind the glass; but still a flame His passion stoked, flooding the gates Rusted closed. So through the corridors In search we went, opening every door Until his dark silent presence I glanced, And on his battered keys a melody I chanced. And he, rasping at first, soon his chords laid bare And his soul released in the deepest of flair. *Ariadne: my friend Kay associates ‘Ariane’ with a higher power or the hand of fate. (In Greek mythology, Ariadne is associated with mazes and labyrinths because she helped Theseus ‘conquer’ the labyrinth and kill the Minotaur).