Third Metaphor

Life is a Song

Of such beauty and power

Its sound rends the heart

And pulls the soul of its listeners.

It is a Song of Joy sung and played

By the Creator

And echoed by His Creation.

Great Themes run together with Minor Variations

In a great and infinite fugue of Fate and Soul.

The major chords of the thunder and the mountains

And the tinkling melody of the Aurora

Are but distant echoes of the Song.

The Sun and Moon and Stars keep time,

And Man is the audience,

And the instrument

And the major theme,

Though all but the Artists and Madmen are terminally deaf.

In the End,

Everyone will realize that this Musician

Is the greatest Artist of them all,

And that even though the song must end,

The music will go on

Forever.

And the Orchestra may yet play again.