Let loose
what is not thine:
thy life,
thy love,
thy time.
No tithe is due
to compense thy birth.
Thy will is but chaff;
summoned by wind
and taken to flight.
This page, in both artistic appearance and
literary content, is a companion to the page which immediately follows
it. Both pages consist of a watercolor landscape in which diverse
patches of different varieties of grass mingle with sand, dirt and stone
along a strand. On this page, the
water runs parallel to the writing and a tree (perhaps apple) is visible
on a hill on the right side of the page. This is, perhaps, significantly
close to the word "birth". Dandelions are also visible in the foreground.
These may echo the sentiment voiced in the poem since they bloom brightly
for a time, then their blossoms dry out and are blown away on the breeze.
Beige, human silhouettes, in miniature, interact with some of the letters
in the poem, relating to the theme of the phrase they are near. The
first silhouette is hanging by his arms from the "L" in "Let loose what
is not Thine:", while the
next figure does a pirouette on the colon. A figure relaxes on
the "N" of "No tithe is due" and another reclines with arms and legs spread
over the word "birth". The remaining figure is in mid-air after diving
off the "g" in "flight".
The first five lines are written in the red
angular script, the protaganist voice. This voice interjects that
nothing is one's own and one is better to grow accustomed to that fact.
The black, gothic script
takes the next two lines, saying that nature is not obligated toward
one merely because of one's existence. The individual must fend for
himself. The red, angular script has the remaining three lines.
It states man's will is but the chaff remaining after the necesseties of
one's
existence have been harvested from life.
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The music playing
is "The Yeoman's Carol" an old English Christmas Carol. It
was sequenced by David Cooke and downloaded from David
Cooke's Corner of the Public Domain.
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