Avalon

Before Sunrise

Sunday, February 21, 2010

In one of the old 2004 entries, I briefly mentioned an episode in which I watched "Before Sunset" with a long-time friend of mine. It was awkward for two males to be in the same theatre watching some realistic yet romantic film (don't ask me how these two come together) about two people who haven't met for 9 years occasionally getting together by yet another chance of fate and end up talking about everything (again like when they last met..) but still failing to hook up with the other. So much has changed since then, but some things were kept constant. I didn't believe we were the idealistic souls we hid beneathe our hides way back. I still don't.

But something drove me to dig out the prequel to that movie, "Before Sunrise". Probably the recovery of a yellowed mental note to watch the film from long ago or the rare invitation brought in by the mellow air on a peaceful afternoon. It could be the intoxicating scent of bittersweet encounters, the enthrallment of a memorable present with no hint of a tomorrow. In any case, I stumbled upon this poem in the show which struck me by its simplicity yet the enormous weight it carries.

Poem from the movie

Daydream delusion, limousine eyelash
Oh baby with your pretty face
Drop a tear in my wineglass
Look at those big eyes
See what you mean to me
Sweet-cakes and milkshakes
I'm a delusion angel
I'm a fantasy parade
I want you to know what I think
Don't want you to guess anymore
You have no idea where I came from
We have no idea where we're going
Lodged in life
Like branches in a river
Flowing downstream
Caught in the current
I carry you
You'll carry me
That's how it could be
Don't you know me?
Don't you know me by now?

Envoy of the Stars @ 3:58 PM
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