WATCHING THE OPERA

Watching the opera "Thais"
by Massenet
while playing the violin solo
in the orchestra as a teenager
when engaged classical music
was fixed in my D.N.A.
without catching any bias
of my mixed range of choice
not being a critical stranger
to the Romantic era
"Thais" changed my solo mind
about the voice of a saint
for soprano or an alto instrument
of the faintly divined.