This week, in Chapter Seven of the Artist’s Way, “Connections”, Cameron talks about simply overhearing the voice of the creator and dictating what is heard. This reminded me of a poem I wrote back in my poem-writing phase, which I literally simply wrote down as a couple of people were talking one day at the Wild Animal Park. I happened to be journaling and when I overheard this conversation, it played directly into what I was feeling at the time – a friend who was drifitng away from me.
Conversation Overheard
“We grow and evolve,
And move away from things that
Used to captivate us.”
“It’s part of life…”
“I don’t really remember…”
“I don’t really want to know.”
“You’re so far beyond me…”
“Trade offs – “
“So what do you say
We move on…”
So why was this friend so special to me? He was the friend I was writing with, creating with. We used to visit bookstores, and one of the things we did was to make a space on the bookshelves for each other’s work. We would move books out of the way where the other person’s books would go, and imagine ours there.
And he wondered why I fell in love with him…
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