Thursday, October 4, 2012

Your Voice


We part ways down the stretch of Liberation Road.*
You traced the path that leads to “SanAg”1
While I ventured the highways of the city and into the countryside
Where I journeyed nights and days in search
For some fugue2 I was hearing faintly
As if by an elfin lady singing inside out of my restless heart

We part ways down the unpaved Liberation Road.
I beat around the bush trying to apprehend Brahms’ Symphony No. 3
While on your keyboard you engaged the masters3 in their Liederkreis4
Albeit you confront the worries of your spirit
To experiment on some fantasie5 to soothe the angst
Over those Sartrean predicaments out of my weary heart

We are far apart and they have cemented the Liberation Road.
Yet still I hear your voice sweetly singing songs
As if by an elfin lady enchanting Apollo with her rhymes
Soothing indeed it is for the hearers to listen to
Comforting the brood that nestles in your arms
Inspiring the hands to whom your heart finally finds rest.

Ah, your voice.
  

*A minor thoroughfare in Iloilo City.
1 University of San Agustin-Iloilo.
2 The word 'fugue' comes from the Latin fuga (flight) and fugere (to flee). In music, it is a type of piece written in counterpoint for several independent musical voices. I am using it here however as a metaphor to dramatize the restlessness of one man’s heart in the context of St. Augustine of Hippo.
3Schubert and Schumann.
4 A series of songs tied by a single narrative or theme. It denotes consistency.
5 A musical composition with its roots in the art of improvisation. 

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