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Elevanyo Concerto by EMERIT2US(m): 7:32am On Sep 06, 2014 |
dfire. Spittle. The sun is the centre of our system. The leaning tower. Two stones. Revolution. Summons to Rome. Burning Stake. The Inquisition. The sun's the centre of our system. El Cordobes! El Cordobes! There are some things I have to confess; (The bulls and bulls you kill in the ring.) When to the wind you all caution fling, You still have things unto which to cling. The bulls and the bulls you kill in the ring Alone have no prospects of wearing a sling. The bulls and the bulls you kill in the ring. But when Galileo Galilei Was thrown into the rot-ring of scorn, The charging bull they hurled against him Was armed to the horn and to the hoof With the cudgel of hate and the spear of fear And with the red-hot crowbar of anger. Galileo Galilei in the ring Was alone; his only weapon and friend Was time; and time was a mere toddler then. (And for time to mature in the marrow, You certainly have to come tomorrow; Centuries and centuries after tomorrow) And they said: Galileo Galilei, We hear you are not at home in the mind, We fear you must be counted with the blind. You may think all thoughts; you may, But you ideas shan't see the light of day; Your midday coughing hurts our midnight prayers. And you said; two is a crowd; even the Elements bear witness; the heavens Hear evidence; the universe gives judgement. Place no mouldy margin upon what I should imagine; and no single censor In hell or heaven shall tell me censor My sigh or sin. You retail a sickle tale Tailored to your taste. But toppling trees tell Another story. When in the lap of A man-blinded God, truth lies, lying like The soon-to-be-unlaced lips of a hell - Robed Iscariot the Judas jettisoned Into the joyless jungle of seekers After the truth that shall not tear apart When torn apart, caterpillar canoes All crawl into the highway threshold Of a contourless anger; but the seed, O God, is already in the soil; the Rains have already gone down to it. Elavanyo! Elavanyo! better Times cannot be too far away. I Sit here watching the stars. Elavanyo. Hei...Galileo Galilei... My eyes are watering, their teeth are tightening, your lips are quivering, and our solo-song slows down to a silent stop; Hallelujah Chorus cracks upon the shock-rock of an anti- truth cataract. O... Galileo Galilei... you fold your face like a preying mantis pawned for a pound of maize; and we erase all trace, taking no chances with cheating charcoal-sellers who hold the hand of hands over the hovering hawk hankering after human flesh. Hei...Galileo Galilei... Time marks time in our tears, and the rivers of truth renew their roar; fire fights flesh in their fears, and suns that shone should no more soar. O... Galileo Galilei... truth's lip- stick on your mind, green anger in their heart, scorners' thick mud on your shirt, black dark- ness in their hair, dry dagger in some hand; and they crouch and come: advancing towards you, advancing towards me, charging against the very liver of truth. Hei...Galileo Galilei... water walking, rainbow running, and the sky in our song; I hear them laughing, I see you sneezing, murderous thunder under their tongue. Rays of knowledge pierce their eyes, smoke of truth blocks their nose; and fire in the flesh, and the rainfall on the rocks, and the myre in the mesh, and man shall not walk? amen.... O... Galileo Galilei... O... Galileo Galilei... Grave and grievous galley-groans all relay The grandeur grinding of the painful play of rude rods on souls that forlornly pray But whom suffering shall soon surely slay On a particular forthdawning day. They love this earth, but their bursting breath gives way, They love this life, but their spirits wont stay. The candlelight of knowledge and truth hold way... Inquisition fires faint-die away... O, Elavanyo...Galileo O, Elavanyo...Galilei. *Elavanyo Concerto: It is an Ewe word meaning things will turn right. |
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