Sunday, October 29, 2017

subtitles

the movie is too long.
she's drifting
in my arms
near sleep, her eyelids
closing, heavy
with the laborious
plot, the subtitles
in yellow,
the lush strings of violins
telling us how to feel.
she's a cat napping under
the warm blanket.
the movie may never end.
I hear her gentle snore,
feel her heart slow down.
the movie is too long,
it wasn't what we thought,
what is?

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