Thursday, August 19, 2010

Porky pig said it best

When something powerful is put to rest, in the movies there's a dramatic theme, A background score highlighting a memory, a recap.
The best moments/ scenes are replayed with careful accuracy and detail. It might even bring a tear to your eye.

In real life, its a little different.
There's never a background score
The lucky one's get a montage. The kind after your graduation ppl put together or when loved one's are celebrating- occasions or simply togetherness.

I'm not one of them.
I don't get a montage. Except for the cruel one playing in my head.
You should see it. It's better than the movies. Way more dramatic.
But very, very real.


As I put together the pieces of emotional reel in my head, I am careful not to edit.
I am a writer. Not an editor.
I think its all necessary. Every detail is important.

I've written about it time and time again.
Before I started , I thought I'd write the best one yet.
But I realized that my stories mean't nothing and everything.
Everything to me, but nothing otherwise
Life is like a sitcom, featuring brutal irony in every episode.

I couldn't even write the best one now if I tried.
It would seem mundane , stale to you.
For me it was always new.

What can I say that I haven't already said before....

I can't believe after all this time.... that it ends this way.
But I better believe it.
I have no choice.
There are other important things. Other things that need my attention.
Things which will someday mean something, unlike my symphony.
A symphony for deaf people is what I played
A book I wrote for the blind.

I could write something passionate, more dramatic right now...my fingers itch to say farewell to the symphony in the way I know I can....

but....pggy.....ibddy..ibbbdddy....'That's all folks'!

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