oh sweet obligato!

harmony
 of brooded
stillness

follower of cacophony
 and the whirl
of destiny

(illusion
 in the unified
movement)

of the dans macabre 
 of the waltz
grotesque

(the driving
 pace
eccentric and distorting)

flying
 out of orbit
tumbling into chaos

fragments
 glimpsed
as work in progress