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By Bernie Taupin and me Submitted by iammyself Date: 2005 Dec 22 Comment on this Work [[2005.12.22.22.03.1514]] |
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"There are women and women and some hold you tight While some leave you counting the stars in the night" Well, what can I say? We loved each other, yet we hurt each other. I told you things I have never told another woman...and I meant them, though they were fantastical images in a surreal situation. God, how I tasted it and thought I could have it. An ending, a beginning, and a new life. I never told you how it's left me feeling now that it's all over. I feel like Captain Jean-Luc Picard did in one of the Start Trek movies, the one where James Kirk finally dies. It's a little hazy now, but there was a wrinkle in the time-space continuum (I've always wanted to write that, Babe), and somehow Picard got sucked into it. For those outside the wrinkle ("reality"...huh), a few days had passed but for those within the wrinkle years or lifetimes had passed. When Kirk went into the wrinkle to bring Picard back, the audience was shown a serene image of a family man happily ensconced in his home with his beautiful wife and children. Of course, Kirk saves the day (and Picard) and out they come...back into "reality". Picard, upon learning where he now was, said..."I lived a wonderful lifetime in there." I tell you this, Babe, because I was just in that wrinkle in time and space, and I was in there with you. I felt like we lived a whole life in there - had a home and some land, raised your little boy, danced, sang, loved, fought, ate, drank, did crossword puzzles, cooked, shared parenting, worked, went to UU, protested, cried, raised bees and lived a lifetime. And now, I've been rescued. Kirk has brought me out of the wrinkle and while I know it was all an illusion, I can't help but wonder... And now, I count the stars in the night. |