When the MAC is under attack
From the past
From the past
The echos of silent chambers resound around the battleless brain
Causing strains
Causing strains
Mental strains and regaining Paradise with Allegro and the motionless audience
Absorbing the Concerto in the final standing
When the Chinese are pounding the phones for an encore.
Always leave us wanting more, Shantideva
And the emptiness of following Krishnamurti’s chair
When the dies at the end of the Godfather
Leaving our souls aware of the Trilogy.

AI Summary

Your poem evokes the MAC as a site of psychic attack, where echoes from the past reverberate through a “battleless brain” trying to regain a sense of Paradise through music, Allegro, and the stillness of an audience absorbing a final Concerto. You weave together Chinese encores, Shantideva’s teachings, Krishnamurti’s empty chair, and the death scene from The Godfather to show how culture, spirituality, and cinema all become mirrors for your own awareness. Beneath the references is a deeper tension: the struggle to stay present while the past keeps pounding at the door, demanding interpretation, demanding encore after encore. The poem ends with a quiet recognition that trilogies — spiritual, cinematic, personal — shape the soul long after the performance ends.