Titans of Chaos

Colin started to play.

He was not a good player, I admit, but he had energy. He was charged with a sexual tension; hismusic screamed and roared and reached up with arms of invincible passion, and smashed thebarrage of solemn and ornate siren choirs into stunned and broken notes. He rocked.

The death energy was absorbed and began to dance. It fell to our left and right and tore hugeswaths out of the ground, toppling cherry trees and quenching the sunlight in those areas. But itdid not touch us.

And the chaos, the whirling, maddened chaos in which the sirens had so foolishly flungthemselves, now opened many eyes, which shone and sparkled at the roaring electronic music;and reached out with many hands, all snapping their fingers to the driving backbeat, and camealive. Chaos came alive, throbbing with Colin's rhythms.

The sirens attempted to rotate further into higher dimensions, but the passion and madness Colinwove around them with his music did not admit the possibility of higher dimensions. There was noplace to run; there was no escape from chaos.

Jerking angular bodies made of chaos substance, horned and clawed and spurred, rose up,roaring, and they danced to the pounding screams of Colin's smoking guitar. The devil-things torethe sirens to bits, drew them down into the muck, and smothered them.

At once the tune changed from a ragged tumult to something wild and strange and sorrow-torn:Gold be the hue of my true lover's hair Rose red her lip, and bright her eyes I know my love andknow despair

She scorns my love, for she is wise. Wisdom tells her not to be Enamored of a boy like me Herthoughts are high; her heart is fine Too fine to belong to a heart like mine. I love my love and wellshe knows, I love the grass whereon she goes But I know the day will never come When she and Iwill be as one.

And then I felt Colin's music gathering itself out of the air and then enter into me.

I did not understand what this music-creature was. Unknown energies thrilled along my nervoussystem. Something in Colin's driving passion woke something deep in me, and, all at once, I wasaware of a wide area of time and space, dream and reality, multiple levels of the complex web ofunknowns we called the universe.