Wednesday, January 31, 2018

They Can't Take That Away from Me

She saw him at a distance sometimes.

A picture, a performance, an album release, something good he's done at a distance.

She thinks that he has moved on from her; that they have parted ways. They have and they had.  But life has a funny ways of turning lines into circles.

The way he wears his hat, she sees it in the photographs, how she had turned it once at a jaunty angle. It's almost a message to her.  You made a good adjustment in my life.

But there are moments when she doesn't feel the echo ever return to her.  She sees their past, but she does not see their future.  A theater piece, in a constant cycle of beginning, middle and end of show, to be turned back over again tomorrow like the same sands in an hourglass. She sees instead, the time he sang out into the ocean, a perfect, endless, beautiful, drug-induced song-trance song he improvised and never remembered again.  SCENE!!!