Credo Cigalia - Mirah

I sing clattering all the summer long

You’ve no choice but to listen to my song

I express so stridently

The joy of life persistent in mighty, mighty me

One of millions

Imperturbably I’ll sing my credo with not a moment’s falter

Shine oh sun, with warmth upon my back

Sideways steps when the heat begins to lack

Dedicatedly I eat by plunging my proboscis deep into this tree

I drink my fill

Side by side both sexes find the nectar that flows within the floor

Picture me, a vaulted canopy

They can’t say for an organ two or three

Resonant cavity fakes a pull on the vox cigala you know the organ stop

Oscillations

Cymbals snap and mirrors flex and the chapels do form a tiny church

Find you brash my vociferous avows

My ardor offends the silence you espouse

Hail harvest time you reap your wheat

And by the time you eat it I’ll be obsolete

Such a short life

Seventeen or three or more I’ve waited so long to greet the sun

So let me have my fun