The faces seem all too close together
Muddled against a thousand streaks of color
Voices overlapping, waves in the sea
Calm sky over streets longing to breathe
Milling with souls living lives of long ago.
It’s all the same desire to break away
Yet there’s no action save planning the escape
And the only way out grows smaller by the second.
Some have already left
And now tell the rest of us stories of the lonely beyond—
Hope is a fantasy of the heavens
And yet, every night amidst flashes of the deep
With infinities to count and discard
Longing for all the stars, we dream.
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Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay
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If you could see one movie again for the first time, which would it be?
I’m torn between La Dolce Vita (1960) by Federico Fellini and Stalker (1979) by Andrei Tarkovsky
The Light is On 
5 responses to “I Discarded Infinity”
Beautiful post. Always longing in your prose. I love that. The first Alien movie. Ridley Scott is a genius. Of course I own and have watched them so many times I am embarrassed to say but that first movie I saw in the theater and walked out because I got sick to my stomach when the little monster jumped out and showed his steel teeth. It will be a classic forever in my book. Love ❤️ J
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Thank you! (: yes Alien is a one of a kind movie experience for sure, it would be awesome to be able to relive it again for the first time!
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Beautiful language! You are a fabulous poet.
As for the movie, without a doubt it would be Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
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Thank you so much! Ah, that’s such a good choice. That movie takes you for a ride and doesn’t let up, from the opening scene to the final shot.
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I love the image and the poem, thoughtful ideas of what may one day happen, in our dreams if not reality …
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