Faces

These faces are having a transvisual conversation in deafening silence. They are an amalgam of us feral and urban. Beast and man.

SOMNOLENT PHILHARMONICS

The theatre was packed with a potpourri of spectators – Critics, Opera lovers, Partons and Matrons of the arts alike. The conductor got on the podium. He bowed courteously to the crowd. Applause! Applause! The curtains went up. The crowd gasped in unison. There was pin drop silence. Alas the –

The entire choir cum orchestra was lost in the sweet embrace of sleep the first cousin of Morte.

PAINT ME THE SUN

Helios once had a lover 
Her name was Selene
Her skin shone beneath the desert sky
like alabaster and white silver
He eyes lapis lazuli
like boulders of emeralds
dipped in turquoise and azure

Selene was a beauty like no other
And she adored her mate Helios
passionately and uninhibitedly so,
That the Sky got jealous of their love
She happened upon a plan to separate
the lovers forever. 
To perfect her evil plan the Sky
recruited her sisters, the twins 
the world would come to know 
as Night and Day.

 The Plan went like this - 
The two lovers - Helios and Selene would be invited
to a pretend -party the Sky would announce that she
was hosting and when the lovers were not watching
the Sky would spike their drinks with a sleep inducing hemlock
And while they slept the each twin would kidnap one of the lovers
And when they awoke they would be separated.

And so it was that when the lovers attended the pretend -party
hosted by the Sky they were drugged and kidnapped
Helios woke up as a prisoner of the Day and
Selene woke up in the cold embrace of the Night
Both lovers tried to break free of their prisons
But soon found out the futility of their efforts

Helios shone and shone brighter and brighter 
Trying to break free of the clutches of his jailer
But the Day never once gave in
Selene wept bitterly as she roamed aimlessly
Through the Night with no respite in sight
The Sky watched smug from her throne
Man also witnessed what had happened
And he felt pity for the lovers
Man took to visiting Helios during the Day
And Selene at Night
Soon he started to deliver messages
between them

Helios wrote poems and love letters 
Which Selene received with joy beyond compare
You see Man was unique and 
as the son of the Sky Lord
He was immune to the magic 
of the capricious twins - Night and Day
Soon he convinced the lovers to 
make themselves useful
In their new abodes, 
each must learn to dominate and
Become the centre of attraction
 in their unique chrono-spatialities

Helios would soar high up 
during the Day and shine 
until the moment he spied Night on the Horizon
 but as he flew towards her 
the sky opened up and he was once again 
plunged into the prison of Day. 
Never experiencing the Night as
Man or his lover Selene did.
Selene on the other hand saved her strength
 for the therapeutic visits of Man
Which all three had agreed would be once a month
So she slept for 28 odd days and woke up on the 29th 
to prepare for Man's visit

This tradition went on for millennia 
and for many many generations 
until the children of Man began to forget 
the language of the ancients.
They forgot the story of the lovers as well.
Until no memory of the lovers' tale or
 their primordial tongue lingered.
We even renamed them the Sun and the Moon
Because their birth names and peculiar story
Had been lost in the sands of antiquity.