A Map For The Broken Heart-Part 1 - Of Gustav....Autocrat and Anti-llectual

A Map For The Broken Heart-Part 1 - Of Gustav....Autocrat and Anti-llectual

A Poem by Michael Handel
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This is supposed to be a tribute to absurdity, death, oxymorons....and of course..dancing."

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  The reflection in his tomb was a gift

  left by those who loved him so as to

  not confuse him upon his return to

  the constraints of mortality

                 Running in fields we walk barefoot and alone

  In his death Gustav would have

  found it necessary to expound on the

  "deeper" meaning and significance of life

                 And only he, he would know

  Of Gustav, when he was.....alive(?)

  it is said, that he so loved his reflection

  that he would dance in celebration, not

  for what he saw, but for what he did not

                 And behold; in spite of snow

  He built a cairn, an allusion to his

  plight....instead, people danced in

  rebellion, entranced by the pyre's light

                 We danced all night....We danced alone

© 2008 Michael Handel


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