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Broken and Rewritten
Keating
18 Jul 2003
Broken and rewritten
This awful process of self-revision.
The sleepless nights, lights burning,
Mocking and staring, and criticizing.
Take the verse that was scribed
And sever it into its rhyming parts.
Said she and said he.
He said and she fled.
Cried he, in vain, in silence.
Left to right him self
Tumultuous inside,
Hope lost on a darkening sea.
Rewrite
What should have been said.
What should have happened.
Frustration in the words,
Playing God with the soul.
Breaking down again, sinking deeper.
Fighting the blackness and loneliness.
The terror of singular existence
Imagination run rampant.
Rewrite this story again,
Scene by scene and page by page,
Each word new in forming.
In the ongoing play of comedy and folly.
Love, but a fool's errand, ever marred, and ever wasted.
Exit the players and enter the jesters,
Making way for the foolish lovers.
Erase, rewrite, recover and rebound.
Ever broken and rewritten,
Mended to love some other day.
It's not exactly Shakespeare at 1 AM. But after reading about Dann's plight I felt compelled to write something. Maybe next time I'll have something better.
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