At the moment of certain death
Everything stops!
It's the eternal now.
Then, what happens?
In this case some miracle sweeps you back from the brink.
Forever altered.
Yet no longer the
moment only a distant epiphany,
London bridge isn't falling down
as a stray puppy diverts our hero's attention
away from the Thames.
as a stray puppy diverts our hero's attention
away from the Thames.
Just an episodic end, not a life's climax.
The protagonist having journeyed through drama's perennial process of discovery.
Feeling at this story's end lonelier if wiser and more mature.
Humbler and rawer. Our Lothario no longer to find only passing pleasure and happiness in being god's gift to women.
He's met despair in his existential crisis. And he's changed.
Seemingly becoming a better person. Whom we expect will experience life more richly.
And develop richer relationships. This the 'poetic truth'. Although 'habit is a great deadener'.
And in real life outside of art's heightened presentation of it
most of us tend to revert back to what we know, and a moment of awakening becomes afterwards the exception that merely proves the rule.
Humbler and rawer. Our Lothario no longer to find only passing pleasure and happiness in being god's gift to women.
He's met despair in his existential crisis. And he's changed.
Seemingly becoming a better person. Whom we expect will experience life more richly.
And develop richer relationships. This the 'poetic truth'. Although 'habit is a great deadener'.
And in real life outside of art's heightened presentation of it
most of us tend to revert back to what we know, and a moment of awakening becomes afterwards the exception that merely proves the rule.
