YOUR IMAGE

Knowing the abacus
of the dying
in a Bach chorus
of the Passion
enjoying the actor's
fast living celebration
after performing
in Beckett's Godot,
the mirror of solitude
and solace of spring
upon centuries of rock
amid the urchins
in evaporated cities
hearing prayers of the dead
standing by the orthodox
after human and natural
disasters to affirm life,
the matchless cubism
of Picasso and Matisse
the joy of lost war photos
and songs of troubadours
which overrun the rivers
after the snow and floods
of our childhood rescue.