I want us to make something that will never last
on December 20, 2008 at 11:53 amI want us to make something that will never last. I want to break onto a rooftop with a shovel and leave a picture in the snow. Only a few executives in the buildings still taller will see it; they will wonder about it, and by next snowfall it will be gone.
I want five seconds in slow motion, the camera on your laughter, steam-breathing, in so much detail I can trace the paths the snowflakes fall.
I confess I am terrified of couples who count their anniversaries in knick-knacks and photo album chapters. An instant can last forever and an eternity can flash by in an instant.
I want to write a message for you in the sand, knowing the tide will wash the beach smooth and you might never see it. Uncertainty is delicious. I want to call a perfect stranger and tell him that I love you, that I am bursting to tell you so. I will ask this stranger not to give me advice. Maybe then this need will leave me.
You know, I could never live so little, but I am jealous of the insects who fly for just one day, mate and die.
Photographers take thousands of pictures to keep just one. I want to spend a day with you, build it up to a look, a touch, a sound I will never forget, and never see you again.
YES
this is wonderful
Simply beautiful …
absolutely wonderful. i’m inspired.
oh my god, this is beautiful and it’s exactly what i’ve been trying to say.
i want to read it over and over and over again.
thank you
for this
I wish I could tell you, you are beautiful as you are. Broken, and battered but so heartbreakingly perfect at the same time.
I want a moment with you that feels like a lifetime but flashes by in seconds. That flutters of the edge of disaster, and at the last second comes swooping back to safety. A moment that feels so close to shattering, you hold your breath for fear of destroying it.
You know I am envious of those who spend there whol lives being complacent. I could never be, I want to feel a new moment everyday for the rest of my life. Be it hurtful or amazing I never want it to feel the same.
I want to see you through a looking glass, so skewed and bone shatteringly beautiful. I want to chase you, find you, only to lose you all over again. To start again.
all or nothing.
either we make something that will last.
or we make nothing at all.
but … you wanna make something that will never last.
:(
I am completely enamored.
Bravo.
want to spend a day with you, build up to a look, a touch, a sound I will never forget, and never see you again.
This reminds me of Andy Goldsworthy. I deeply struggle to find value and significance in such transience, but I am also deeply attracted to it.
I want to see five centimetres per second, petals so ephemeral like our lives. To put you on a pedestal and stay away, turn the lock and destroy the key. You will last forever, in my memory. Our distance kills who you really are. I think I (my sanity) prefer(s) that.
I (never) want to know you again, to learn we might not be like putty; separate and inseparable. I’ll be happy with these distorted kaleidoscope images. You are beautiful and immortally so, as long as I keep you at arm’s length. My memories will outlast us.
I existed for the past and breathed for the future… he lived in the present and prayed for a moment.
Without you I would never feel… But I do, and I am sorrier than I can ever say.