Thaddeus Hutyra 
PHANTOM OF THE SOUL 

‘ PHANTOM OF THE SOUL ‘What a carnival was it, a pure delight of all sensesthe whole days and nights long, most mesmerizingto the thunderous tunes of a heavenly symphonyof the Sun’s rays followed by displays from the stars What a carnival was it, endless music and danceon our motherly Earth and in the fatherly Heavensand what we didn’t know on far away beautiful planetsin different parts of the Universe, where life flourished What a carnival was it, from a Danish Fastelavn via the outburst of joy and dance in Rio de Janeiro to the Carnival of Venice, a masquerade with masksfrom Bauta and Arlecchino masks, to Zanni masks What a carnival was it, all stars danced with frenzyand the symphony of the skies played days and nightsthe greatest musical masterpieces of all timesfrom Beethoven to Mozart, to Bach, to Dostojevsky What a carnival was it, all the phantoms together Phantom of the Day and Phantom of the Night Phantom of the Opera and Phantom of the Music Phantom of Life, of Heart, of Desire, of Love What a carnival was it, with Phantom of the Soultaking stage finally, the phantom of my own soulscintillating as never before to the stunning rhythmsof the skies passing far above my dreaming head What a carnival was it, me singing and dancingall the day and all the night, and again, and again The Phantom of the Soul, of my own sparkling soulsinging most to the tunes of the heavenly symphony’ PHANTOM OF THE SOUL ‘ by Thaddeus Hutyra Copyright © Thaddeus Hutyra All Rights Reserved