Maestro

Maestro

By Tim Reed

Thinking you control your life

is like 

a composer 

Couched between charred earth and blackened sky 

Baton held delicately 

Waving wrist smoothly 

Convinced

He is causing the resounding vibrations 

of the heavens' timpani 

"I command the sequence of light 

With a gesture 

I unleash ten thousand candles"

"When my gaze burns

The waters release their hold on the heavens

and pour with fury on the sod below."

"What then is beyond my hand and eye?"

Only when the candles render

Sight

sightless

Only when sodden lungs render

Breath

breathless 

Only when death renders

Motion 

motionless 

Only then will man

know his place

Only then will man 

know

his

madness