Orpheus
You descend unto us mortals
bringing light and inspiration
with the joy of beauty
as a dream of immortality,
at least a vision of its possibility,
as the mere existence of your person,
O talented son of the ideal Apollo,
gives not only hope to all humanity
but lightens up all hopelessness
and hell itself
with all its doomed accursed souls
condemned to suffer in extremity
forever, like ourselves this winter...
well, your visit was indeed most welcome
like a well-deserved renewal of the show
with better hopes this time
that your inspiring and revitalizing gifts
will keep us going for it yet again
for yet another moment of eternity.
Poetry by Christian Lanciai
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Written on 2010-02-01 at 19:05
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