eroica beethoven

eroica beethoven









wait a minute!
we have not the stamina
or the time
you think we do,
to be
called to such
immortal heights.



for we are busy.
busy
shuffling papers.
busy
building boxes.
busy latching on to things.



anyway,
how could anyone
be expected
to answer such a call?
is there anyone so ennobled,
anyone at all?



so
just leave us
to
our vices!
leave
a curtain
across the night.
you be that hero
beethoven,
for you alone
could
hear the light!






©sjw  2009 inspired at this very moment in time by little luigi.




from the 'beethoven series' of poems