Song of Love
The Soprano pushed open her shell of light and blinked in the darkness. Her delicate
body glowed in a bath of soft, mystical sounds. The joyous notes rose like a mist
of melodies, and tingled the grass beneath her tiny bare feet, and whooshed through
the leaves of the tress in silent whispers. Her eyes danced in the voice that
marked her newly discovered power. At last she had mastered the tone of her mind.
Slowly the
music drifted back and settled in her heart, but its continuing hum left her with
a warm reverberating comfort. A comfort that would calm her mind in moments of
confusion. A comfort that would bring her the strength and the power and the compassion
to heal the wounds of loneliness in the hearts she would now touch with her gentle
song. She smiled and listened to the silence of the night, and she felt complete.
It was in that
moment of fullness that her heart heard the Baritone's song. It was a simple song,
with a simple message. "May peace prevail on earth," his words pleaded,
and proclaimed with timeless urgency. She felt his prayer of promise drifting
over the hills of compassion, and crossing the seas of desire, and filling the
skies of wonder, and the words and notes rained down over her soul in tears of
joy and hopeful comfort. Now her heart stirred and sang out in all of its power,
"May Peace Prevail on Earth," and the two melodies blended and intertwined
in passion and peace and perfection. In
that moment, she was no longer the Soprano. She was no longer a voice reaching
out in the darkness. For two songs had become one in harmony, slowly crystalizing
a shared vision of Peacetopia -- a time and a place of peace and joy and harmony
that has always existed but has yet to be. And as her heart listened, lovingly,
longingly, she sensed other voices gently joining in, complementing the duet.
"May Peace Prevail on Earth," they proclaimed as one. The Sound filled
her soul as a place was found for every voice that ever longed to be heard, creating
a joyous symphony that flowed to a rising crescendo, overflowing with the passion
of all the unsung measures of compassion that had laid dormant in all the hearts
that had ever been broken, fully revealing the awe and wonder of Peacetopia.
The moment passed,
but its promise of a world at peace was not forgotten. The Soprano smiled
as silence once more filled the night. The hum of her heart was still
aglow with fire and passion, and it warmed her soul, and it kept the
flame of her vision alive and ablaze.
The dawn was breaking
in rays of hope and there were whispers of song all around her. She felt her heart
beating in time with the symphony of life that greeted her senses, and her eyes
sparkled with the vision of her power and the promise of the passion that her
heart would soon be bringing to her.
Smiling, she gathered the cloak of discretion that hung on a branch of the tree
of life, and she pulled it over her golden body. The light of her song could not
be hidden beneath the threads of the earth, and the melody floated around her,
reaching out ahead and behind and within to announce her arrival, and to ease
the suffering of the earth with the beauty of her song. She untied her steed and
climbed atop, smiling as she set out on the road to Peacetopia, into the new day,
leaving the glowing shell to fade in the distance.
THE END ©
1994 Robert Alan
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