February 11,  2021

THERE  IS  A  MOVIE 

There is a movie being made,
a documentary, a drama,
a comedy, with tragedies,
stories, surprises, twists and turns.

It's me. 

It's you.

It's all of us.

It's filled with lots and lots of people.
It’s  being put together – cut and paste - 

slowly - - -

being gathered from the scattered

scenes and stories of our lives.
We are figuring  out our life....

Slowly.
It’s playing up there on a tiny screen
in the right hand corner of our mind.
It’s like a tiny TV in a diner. We watch it

while eating - especially when the others

go into the kitchen for a moment. We watch

it while waiting in a waiting room in a hospital. 

We stop to watch in from time to time 

in church or at the beach, or in bed at night. 

Yes.

Yes we do.

- - - -

Years later 

we see so much more when we re-visit the places
we’ve been to or when we look at pictures 

from way back when - 

where we’ve been -

what we've done.

We do.
We are in the stories  of our life
and the lives of so many people in our lives –
and on the planet. We have regrets

in the desk drawers of our lives.

Secrets....

Yes we have secrets

and sorrows....

We are holding "bags of sand and shells". 

We are "injured sea gulls at times".
We are the people we go by every day. 

So it’s good to stop and look at.

It's good to put and pull together 

the movie of our lives.

It is

and it's good to talk to each other.

It is.

It's good to show each other - each other.

It is.

It has been.

It is - - - - - good.

 

 © Andy Costello, Reflections 2021