Circa 1987

Looking Into Master's Eyes

Do I dare emulate?

Do I dare?

Do I dare?

Do I show my respect, my regard, my reverence

And my lack of original thought

In honoring the masters who led me to my fate.

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My life, as it lies

Before me like a land of dreams,

Has nothing that doesn't remind me

To pay homage to some immortal master

Who set before me this faint disguise.

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As my mind moves upon silence,

I silently curse the names

Of a hundred men and women who before me stood

Like great Greek statues

And somehow overcame invoking on their masters violence.