The Artist Overwhelmed

The artist overwhelmed by the grandeur of ancient ruins
 The ruins of life
 The passing of time
 Like bodies, like minds
 We pass
 Hold me
 Converse with me
 In Italy
 Intelligently
 Drinking coffee
 In the shadow of muscular statuary
 Kiss me eternally
 On the iPod Christoph Willibald Gluck
 The white face and the mime
 The pierrot and the queen
 Plaster dust is on your face
 Clasp me in your marble grasp
 In the midst of life there is death
 "I give pleasure to all
 I will go wherever you want me
 If you sing or talk to me I will retain your songs or words
 And repeat them to you at your pleasure
 I can enable you to always play the voices of your loved ones
 Even though they are far away
 I talk in every language
 I can help you to learn other languages
 The more you become acquainted with me, the better you will like me"