Hold the dark, but once you’re lost
home will never find you.
Loosen ties because the clock
will murder all behind you.
The strangest stars are silent still,
the ancient light is bending.
No message yet to warn of
your beginning or your ending.
Rhyme I wrote for one of hubby’s sci-fi screenplays involving deep space travel and time dilation, and you can bet your butt that nothing good comes of anyone in this tale.
Who would want to jump into a ship and travel at the speed of light out into the deep, dark depths of unexplored space? And then by the time you return home, if you do, everyone you know is super old or dead? Well, I thought it was a good story.
But writing screenplays, I’ve found (through hubby), is a little bit like deep space hardcore sci-fi where, by the time you’ve written two or three or five of them, you look up and eons have gone by, most everyone you know has disappeared, and you can never go home again.
Ah, well.
Laughter Over Tears 