NOT LIKE THE MOVIES
NOT LIKE THE MOVIES
Joetwo
Life is not like the Movies I find
Sometimes good doesn’t win
Evil seldom dresses in black
The fight is seldom fair
The cause rarely just
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Life is rarely like the movies
There is no soundtrack to warn me
No formulae that events follow
No check list of colourful characters I need to complete
Things rarely work out in the end
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I wish life could be like the movies
I wish that true love would be clear with a single look
That, events, friends, the hands of the great script writer
Would conspire to keep young lovers together
That after that first kiss, the future is as perfect as the leading ladies hair
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But life is not like the movies
Life is real
There is no cut scenes, no jumps in plot
The story goes at the same pace regardless of the interest of the audience
No secret lighting or camera angles to hide that which you don’t want seen
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Life is not like the movies
Because that is how it is meant to be
The world is more, beautiful, insane and complex than anything ever put on celluloid
And you get it for free
Front row seats in the premiere of your life.
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Posted on January 11, 2012, in Joetwo, POETRY and tagged life, love, not like the movies. Bookmark the permalink. 1 Comment.
If you want happy endings the movies is rarely the place to find such temporal change of scenes. As someone who went over scripts, those who are behind the scenes often have
another agenda than we realize, there are a few great prophets like Orson Welles, now
profits and popcorn puff pieces sell and great profits made.Yes, life is reality, escape can
often be for observation or introspection. The Italian film ‘Life is beautiful” shows us truth and love,in the midst of a horror show of our world.