Monday, July 18, 2016

The Tunesmith: Parts I-III

The Tunesmith: Parts I-III
I: The Masters

Masters of the future's past, perceivable to whom they want
In rekindled memory, return to with predictions haunt
From their retroactive glimpse of any interesting soul
They just met in decades hence, the background stretched to countries whole

Blazing with the autumn colours, carefree dreams of cheerful play
Crumble from the gravity of prophecies they have to say
Thrusting in the blameless face of childhood naivety
Challenges that lie ahead in full adult complexity

Children so encountered want to trust the neighbour as a friend
Even when they're bluntly told that he will give cause to defend
Though a flashy music show might thrill a youngster as his fate
Being hailed a poet would be classed as something that could wait

Long and hard would be the struggle nobody would want to get
Means afforded by technology to be developed yet
Halos and high spirits may await as final destinies
Following the horrors that would bring an army to its knees

Psychic knowledge of the masters on the slimmest odds astound
They whose impact on the timeline promise to be most profound
One would need assistance with the will to persevere alone
Through a heavy gauntlet of derision on him wrongly thrown

Labeled a composer when he'd not begun a note to learn
Vigilance against detractors would become his first concern
Basking in the company of beings by his peers unknown
As the daunting details of approaching strife were to him shown

Clement drifted from the message to a more amusing game
As he heard a true account of hurdles on his way to fame
Bracing for the struggle would begin before his foes were born
To be fortified enough to see eroding years outworn

Having made him buckle to the imminence of his delay
At the hands of malefactors in his future faraway
They departed, promising to come back on the crisis' eve
Wispy recollections that might only have been make-believe

II: The Crew

Rupturing the calmness of a residential avenue
Raucous were the voices of the dubious production crew
Found in institutions and for cheap and unskilled labour picked
Glasses raised to toast the damage they'd be able to inflict

Concentrated misfits with their stagnant company secure
In the spotlight's shadow but susceptible to its allure
Bandying a flimflam or a better name that they could steal
Centred on the height of the superiority they feel

Occupying posts within a thick of unassuming strays
Long had they escaped detection, presence lost within a haze
Takers of the toxin that they poured in what they had to tell
From the spin of pure deceit received a whopping dizzy spell

Sprung from stark confinement by the sympathetic hand of hate
And with sly accomplices allowed once more to congregate
Trouble was assured by the renewal of their shallow leer
As their weary victims braced for more assaults along the rear

Herschel's raging hormones held him in a state of sorry need
On the panic of the young and innocent he had to feed
Banished from the playgrounds for behaviour deemed distinctly lewd
He succumbed to laughter that allowed his wet tongue to protrude

Benedict was more aloof, his sabotage precisely planned
To produce the widest devastation that the act could land
Drugs that helped him shore up his hallucinations of the self
Had to be extracted from the disinfectants on the shelf

Being with the Blister sisters, Thelma-Lu and Rosa-Li
Often proved the ladies' charm to have been better off to flee
As they lent their shapely bodies for amusement or as bait
Teeming with desire to illicitly incarcerate

Woe to the outsider who'd become the focus of their field
With the drops of his own blood, his ruin would be signed and sealed
Like a nest of vipers were they to the stranger on the street
Who a long expected fate by their fault was about to meet

III: The Pact

Once presented evidence for life in reaches hidden yet
Such as Clement's interaction with the beings he had met
Cumbersome becomes the mantle of the normal waking trance
Whose rejection drew to him the hateful ones' unwelcome glance

His sincere expressions of dissatisfaction and disdain
Resonated with the public as the news could not explain
His demand for room to travel on an independent road
Caused the panel to unravel by the strong support it showed

Since his efforts brought to light the oversights of industry
Well advanced professionals opposed him with ferocity
On malicious missions did they as a compact team embark
Leaning on the cheating angle topped by the malign remark

His acoustic option by the finger held upon the string
Framed in thoughtful passages his voice was suited well to sing
Left them no resort but to diffuse the impact of his tune
Drowning it in fuzzy tributes to a mellow afternoon

By the bending broadcast signals singling him sorely out
He was seen as easy for the bad to use to score a rout
Eagerly they fell upon him, keeping to his open back
Counting up the moments he was vulnerable to attack

Word then passed down through the channels tantalizingly discreet
With the tunesmith's bloody slaughter, history would be complete
Undertakers visited to measure him to fit his hole
And to pay their honours to his soon to be departed soul

Invitations such as that with which they had directly plied
To attend his fan club with the Blister sisters at his side
Were considered by the crew intensely irresistible
Though his warm reception would be rather more combustible

Clement was distracted by a vision of internal bliss
Scheduled for demolition, his appointment he would miss
Curses issued faintly from the disappointed near the scene
When they saw the house go off with him outside the house between

(to be continued)
  
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