Another Day...

[vdansk]

Flashbacks to the great Mother's Day e-card i received--the "Mother of the Year" video.

"We've all been half-dressed, torso deep in yesterday's refuse, searching for a retainer that costs more than rent, thinking "Holy God, how did I get here?"--but she makes that sort of thing look so elegant."

Having elegantly recovered my daughter's missing retainer, I am contemplating getting elegantly inebriated. Given my tolerance, the single Mike's hard lime in the fridge should do the trick.



Impossible Choices


“A fish may court a bird, my dear,”
My father said to me
“But they will never find a home
In river nor in tree.”
So my father told me,
And I fear that it is true--
For I think I am that bird
And the fish I want is you.

A fish, he needs the water,
As a bird, she needs the sky
And wanting cannot change
What they must have unless they die.
And the point where air and water meet
Is precious little space--
Not enough to make a home
And barely to embrace.

Perhaps I’ll be a Kingfisher
And skim into your blue
And share some stolen moments
Within your world with you.
Perhaps you’ll be a flying fish
And briefly soar in mine--
Whatever we may try, my dear
We’ll find no friend in Time.

“A fish may court a bird, my dear,”
My father said to me
“But they will never find a home
In river nor in tree.”
So my father told me,
And I fear that it is true--
For I think I am that bird
And the fish I want is you.

Comments

[chris-warrior.livejournal.com]

medioce?

i REALLY like it.

needs music. :D

[vdansk]

It has music. Not that I can write it down, of course, but the tune was set before the LARP was over.

[chris-warrior.livejournal.com]

i wondered if this was the song you referred to. :)

[xanath.livejournal.com]

I love it. :D I think it's sweet and sad, just like the best songs of my childhood were.

[saxikath]

Ah, this is why you were asking me about kingfishers. :) I like it very much!

[rantarn.livejournal.com]

I second on the "mediocre" comment. That's not mediocre in the least. I like it a lot.

[vdansk]

You guys are far too kind to me. :)

(This is what I kept borrowing your pen for, if you hadn't guessed.)

[rantarn.livejournal.com]

I had figured as much, yes.

[olivine-sidhe.livejournal.com]

hmm..that looks familiar......

[vdansk]

Well, yes, it would!

I've written more songs in the past year or so than in the previous dozen. I'm not sure if that's a good thing or not.... :)

[reynaud.livejournal.com]

Always, always a good thing. Even if you never show them to another, writing songs is always (in my mind) a good thing. Or perhaps a better way of putting it is that it is A Good Thing.

[vdansk]

Cheaper than therapy, anyway.

Wait, that's what I say about LARPing. ;)

[reynaud.livejournal.com]

I like it. In fact, the more I think about, the better I like it.

I hope you can "record" the tune good enough to sing it us when next we all meet. Because I want to hear that song.

[vdansk]

The tune is set in my memory, so just ask! And thank you for your kind words.