# Unimportant Verse 1

Author: makyo
Tags: Experimental, Poetry

#1 of Unimportant Verse About Important People

I see your past in cross-processed film,  
in blown-out colors and over-saturation.  
  
    You told me all about it, told me grand stories:  
    you were going to go back in time and save the world.  
  
I see your past in yellows and browns,  
in umber and sienna and amber, in a younger sun.  
  
    You sat and told me how -- and you were always sitting --  
    you thought past-you dreamt of a future less complicated than today.  
  
I see your past through film-grain and vignette,  
with a thick white border, space on the bottom to write.  
  
    You told me how you learned so many imperfect things,  
    in so many less than ideal ways, always at inopportune times.  
  
I see your past in architectural drawings of unrealized buildings,  
in paperback covers reaching towards heaven, in trillions of words.  
  
    You figured past you dreamt of, not perfection,  
    but a world unconstrained by so many failures.  
  
I see your past with no me in it,  
and wonder if past-you dreamt of us.

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