Praise for the Master - Laura Merzig Fabrycky

TUESDAY, MAY 4, 2010
Amman, Jordan
© Laura Merzig Fabrycky

Praise for the Master
You, the Storyteller!
You, the Poet!
Great crafter of beauty and intrigue
   and the framing of images
   before the mind's eye of the
   awake and the alive,
   or the awakening and the enlivening
   or the asleep and the near dead.
You call us up, out, and through
   to images, to the fiery, detailed grandeur
of the story,
the words—jewels of your love.
The covenants—Master,
you are good,
over and through
it all.
You, the Creator of Creation!
You, the Creator of Context and Co-Creation,
        and of Co-Creators
You, the Envisioner of Imagination:
   l'histoire et de poésie--
   explicit and tacit
   lived and experienced--
we move within the pages of your verse,
  rest within the gulleys of your impasto
        on the yet-dried canvas in your studio,
  dance to the movement of your strings played
                    by the heavenly spheres,
  tread with fear within
           your language, yours words, and your language beyond language,
to find we are undone and remade by
   the play of it all
   the staging and lights
   (alongside its frightful reality).
We are living,
awed by your mastery.