The Heart’s Song
What can you add to the Heart’s Song?
How do you warm the sun’s rays on a cold day?
How do you speed up the wind or the river’s flow? .
Friends, this is nonsense: Just add your voice and sing!
You should know by now there are no such words, and reason
fails when a simple beauty is perceived. But if you echo
that beauty by singing its melody in a clear lyric voice,
the world will skip a beat, and all – all will be changed!
His name is Jeremy, and his emblem
is the painting by Odilon Redon
of a young man with his eyes tightly
shut, who seems to be viewing
an inner panorama that holds him rapt.
Can you tease out the threads that
connect the man blindly swimming,
the chorus Pierre Boulez conducts,
an afternoon in a Paris studio, and
the immense unease felt by everybody
who follows the precious fleeting sounds
in the air we breathe? Jeremy can do all
of this. And here’s the rub: Jeremy has lost
faith, he has lost face, he has lost his place.
He wants to help create a new world, but
he is too guilty to live in it. Why must he
carry such a weight all alone? He echoes
Stockhausen: “Humanity is one immense body,
moving through soul-states on its ascension
to spirithood.The common sadness of being human
makes us give comfort to others and receive
comfort in turn. It is so easy to live a blessed
life! ” Jeremy’s veiled poems will yet save the world.
Who will add an AMEN to that?
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