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***This is a concept I've been struggling to put into words for a long time. This is by no means done (and may never be completed to my satisfaction) but I'll be working on it throughout the week. In the novel, Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold touched upon this and wrote one of the most wonderful descriptions of the concept (I'm trying to describe) to date. I'm not going to tell you what it is, because I want to see if people can guess on their own/have them take it how they want to! Enjoy***
7/19/11
You are a vessel of memories untold. Stories which will forever remain unknown to me, unless I accidentally happen to stumble upon some long forgotten article that awakens the memory within. To me, your history started 24 years after it really did, your past divided into BM and AM-- before me and after me. As far as I’m concerned, the laugh lines lining your eyes like kohl, were created by me and not once did I think that someone else could lay claim as their creator.
I find your face, a face I can recognize better than my own regardless of the emotion it chooses to display, difficult to identify when it is accompanied with two braided pigtails and a beaming smile. When I hear your stories, I try to imagine that child as the protagonist, but the best I manage is your face, on a child’s body. Because in truth, that is how I’ve always made sense of your stories. Perhaps it’s because you’ve always been lost in the past, that I subconsciously keep placing you there now.
i read it as one's mother... funny cause we were talking about this the other day in the diag.. i really love the beginning of the second paragraph, its very true about her being "a face i recognize better than my own"... i never really thought of it like that, but there are those few faces we obviously know better than our own. except narcissus who knew his own best :P
ReplyDeletei wish you would tell me what this was about :(
ReplyDelete"Perhaps it’s because you’ve always been lost in the past, that I subconsciously keep placing you there now." love that line
"Stories which will forever remain unknown to me, unless I accidentally happen to stumble upon some long forgotten article that awakens the memory within. To me, your history started 24 years after it really did, your past divided into BM and AM-- before me and after me." very nicely said!
this one is incredibly beautiful :)
@ambika anand: The story of Narcissus used to be one of my favs! and yes we were talking about this other day. If you haven't read lovely bones, you should check it out. There are some wonderful descriptions of this concept and it's a great (although sad) book.
ReplyDelete@sunny: hahah That's one of my favorite lines as well Sunny. mucho gracias. do you know what it is about yet? it can be about a few other people too but i did write it to fit one specific person.
no i do not :(
ReplyDeleteim not telling you what my next poem is about when i read it to you. and ill make it so twisted and metaphorical!! :P