The intensity of stone
\nleaps from David.
\nWhat did Michelangelo say to himself?
\nHis throat hoarse with dust.
\nWas the marble soft as water?
\nDid he ignore the pain
\nas David emerged?
\nHimself a father.
\nIronic sex,
\nuntil his son stood like a rhapsody,
\nface as pure as morning.
\nWithout sorrow.
\nWith the patience of everlasting life.<\/p>\n
Did Michelangelo come to the hall
\nto see him?
\nDid he stand in the shadow
\nafraid of the whiteness?
\nThe light that came from his creation.
\nDid he,
\nbefore his death
\npray for David\u2019s life?
\nThat he walk with the blood of man
\ninside himself?
\nThat David would call out
\nfor his father?
\nThat he pled,
\ndo not leave me mute and hard!
\nI see you in the portico.<\/p>\n
I heard you whisper to me
\nwhen no one listened, that I
\ncome alive!
\nSpeak to me before I die!
\nDo not let me be a god
\nwho cannot put warmth in his child!
\nDo not let me be alone
\nwith a silent angel!
\nI threw my chisel at Moses
\nwhen he refused to speak.
\nIs that what Michelangelo said?
\nWhen he turned his face to the wall
\nand wept for the voice
\nhe could not give him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The intensity of stone leaps from David. What did Michelangelo say to himself? His throat hoarse with dust. Was the marble soft as water? Did…<\/p>\n