Romantic Resistance (poetic prose)

Romantic Resistance

1.

Striking the night with a stomping sound, now we’re all lit up & loud. Heed these protest songs for our times, as the axe of recession swings, leaving splinters in our sides. Now woken from weary, resistance is recalled, as voices soar & boots slam the floor.

Cave into the cacophony & have it meet your mettle.  Let those notes of jagged urgency excite your hopeful energy.

Fuel to forge, & fight on, so resistance roars, loud & strong.

Soundtrack

Muse - Uprising

2.

Night sky fills with other-worldly wonder; strains of gorgeous grandiose guitar seal it in. Then strings stir whimsically: yearning, searching, towards the essence of it all. We’re lifted & infinity is conjured.

Such completeness is also tinged with sadness, a feeling of futility, for how to come back down? How to re-enter strife-ridden reality? Where our efforts may amount to too little, too late; we fail to meet our expectations; all remains unmoved, unchanged, unrealised. Harmonies ring out anxious confusion; can we rein in the worry, or will the worry take us?

Madness merges with melancholy. Are we best to declare this the final act?

Soundtrack

Muse - Exogenesis: Symphony Pt 1 (Overture)

3. 

Riding the road of resistance is not done at one speed, to one beat, continuously. You travel intermittently, at different speeds, tuned at many pitches. Sometimes you race on solid ground, robust with resolve & armed with the answers, drumbeat heart pulsating. Other times you tread trembling ground, self-doubt itching, no insight scratching, fretting falsetto, & spiralling.

Soundtrack

Muse - Stockholm Syndrome

4.

                                                                                              

Rise up, or be consumed? Stay up & fight, or say goodnight?

Which speed to favour, which sound to savour?

You strap yourself in for both, blast it all loud.

Spark up on electric riffing ragged, fuse with others to tear it down, to re-define what’s real.

Then stretch out alone on a night time wander, & let its reverberations strengthen, not smother, your steel.

Soundtrack

Muse - Unnatural Selection

Piece inspired by Muse's performance at Wembley Stadium, UK, 10 September 2010

By Michelle Wright

(Autumn 2010)