Animapoetae - These Quiet Promises

My favorite scene of Endless Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

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Dad

I had a conversation with my sister recently about moving and having to throw things out since we’ve been sorting things and trying to finally clean up as we switch rooms with mom again (my sister and I are now back in the living room so mom can have her privacy and we can have people over). At some point, she said said, “I feel like we lose a piece of dad every time we move, like when we had to throw out his suspenders.” I thought about it, realized I felt the same way, and also said, “But I feel like we lost him when he stopped coming out of his room” and explained that poem I wrote way back when that made him so upset when he saw it. I think the poem went something like: I hear the clicking of keys and the lights under the door and sometimes I wonder, if it’s me. My sister said it was teenage angst when I told her how badly I felt that I wrote and uploaded that poem. I wonder though if that is ever really a justification for how it must have hurt to read it.

How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot. The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind. Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d;

Eloisa to Abelard