Unremitting Serenade (Part One)

And again he took up his pen To place upon pages That his soul and heart may be heard His message may be listened to Though he has no voice For the one, the only one And he awoke In dream Once more I stood before the Seraph Upon the brink of this world and the next With a bright star illuminating the infinite sky And behind me a gossamer stair descended Yet all of this I saw so vaguely For my eyes beheld the Angel once more Once again I noticed her smile The whisper of rose upon her cheeks Soft luminescence within her eyes A tender sheen of dewdrop red upon her lips And her luscious waves and shimmering of hair I inhaled all her intoxicating scent The unknown essence And yet this time I noticed A flaw Upon bright downy wings I saw a slight shading a dimming of the white There lay a breath of grey A lamentation arose within me But the Seraph gazed upon me to smile Thus she spoke As her words fell upon my ears The unremitting serenade arose throughout To sing with much despair so all would know The reasons for the dimming of the sun The shading of the vast skies Why the moon rose to blot out the bright stars To place sorrow here upon the edge of the world Behind me the waves of lamentation hit the stair To shatter the silken strands to dust And within me a keening rose From deep inside beyond the soul’s resting-place Out from the depths it rose To rage and unleash its wrath To cause my blood to bubble and boil To fill my body and mind with a conflagration I raised my arms above And opened my eyes wide gazing beyond The rabid vortex of fire To scream I screamed, I screamed To break my soul