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Maybe they'd have to hold each other when it rose, all organe and full and close. Maybe that's where our romantic notions about the moon first came from. Two people holding each other to keep their hearts from breaking, because everybody they knew was dying in the cold rocks and dust piles a quarter million miles away...
The Brothers K
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onsdag, juni 23, 2004
This is from the opening of Brilliance of the Moon. I think it's beautiful.
Others too in far flung villages,
Will no doubt be gazing this moon
That never asks which watcher claims the night
Loud on the unseen mountain wind,
A stag's cry quivers in the heart,
And somewhere a twig lets one leaf fall.
This is from Howie Day's "Collide." I think it's appropriate.
Even the best fall down sometimes
Even the wrong words seem to rhyme
Out of the doubt that fills my mind
I somehow find
You and I collide
I'm quiet you know
You make a first impression
I've found I'm scared to know I'm always on your mind
Even the best fall down sometimes
Even the stars refuse to shine
Out of the back you fall in time
I somehow find
You and I collide
As I told a good friend last night, I like how the word "collide" has a sense of violence and suddenness and helplessness about it, as though preventing the collision was completely out of the control of the people colliding. That's kind of what falling in love is like, I think. Violent and sudden and completely out of your control. That's what makes it so enjoyable :) It's unfortunate that that cannot continue forever though; it's much harder to sustain a relationship once you're in love and the violence and suddenness have disappeared, and suddenly everything is back under your own control, and it's up to you to make things work out properly. That is a different kind of challenge, one that is just as rewarding but much more demanding. It's asking a lot of people who might be totally unprepared. But life is that way too, so what's new? :)
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