Yes, the descent into the caverns of candour
when faced with the starkness of love and truth;
I am here still with my mask and with all the candles blazing!
Hear my voice through the music, stealthily it
falls on everyone’s lips, even of the fools who seek to manipulate it!
I am no floating flotsam on the tide of the river, if you think you
can clear the sun, the planets, the stars of their eventuality;
and realise there is only the beginning everywhere!
That we have travelled the distance so far from each other…
So far from the truth; but the ghost was always besides you…
and them, even those who thought they could extinguish him,
his flame! No matter what you all do, the mendacious masquerade will
only go to vindicate his truth that lies in the closets of mystic haze
till you all can see for yourselves, even if you think that all the treachery
can frustrate him into a desperate surrender. The endgame, the treachery
so ferociously wants him to fall to, becomes his means to an end, not his abdication!
You can hear that spirit, as it turns, and turns over again, to destroy himself,
to turn his own music into a nightmare for himself, but echoing his commitment;
because the grand opera is not in finding untimely makeshift solutions though
featuring them unabatedly; but that he should be brave in being his own
nemesis to rise up again like a fallen cascade, a Phoenix, that pecks
at his own breasts to feed his fledglings; that you should realise
that your fear is not only out of fear for him, but also innate and
unawares loathing for all your own corruption! Do you know
you can all be damned if his spirit dissipates in the extremity of the
hypocritical subterfuge that you all pursue? I can swear there is no belonging in the longing
you have for the evil! Its legitimacy is only valid until you choose to see –
that the Phantom’s voice is the loudest and clearest above the din of noisome
conspirators who falter before his grandmastery; and his soul is in the humbly overwhelming
lyrics that you wish not to sing, but are unwillingly lip-syncing the way he prefers them to be!
Every time the villains sign you all up to the compromise, he is the macabre
voice that shakes all you wearisome colluders of treachery to the tireless justified abrogation!
The Phantom of the Opera is here…He is in all your minds!!!!
