When a writer falls in love with you, you become
the unwitting inspiration of a whole mess of
spilled ink. You become all nine muses to a
lone typewriter. You become the lyrics to a
melody, the syllables of iambic pentameter, the
plotline of a fantastic adventure. One day you
will be reading and you will find yourself
trapped in the middle of pages.
When a writer falls in love with you, you will find
yourself in lives you never lived and characters
you never knew. The writer won't always intend
for you to be there, but you will find yourself in
the little things...a background character with a
similar lips, familiar flecks of green in the eyes
of a hero, a stupid joke you once told now
immortalized in ink. The ring you always wear
on the middle finger of your right hand will
suddenly appear on a character who shares no
physical attributes with you-- but you are there
in the subtleties. You'll discover yourself in
narrators and scapegoats and irrelevant side-
characters: all characters who aren't you, but
whose hair bears an incredible likeness to
yours, or who love the same absurd Swedish
rap band, or who cry at the same old Disney
movie, or whose third tooth is chipped just like
yours. Sometimes you will find yourself blushing
at an obvious reveal-- a love interest that could
not bear more likeness to yourself, or a poem
that so directly describes your situation that
you can't help but assume, or a character that
sounds like you except a thousand times better
than you ever thought of yourself. Other times,
you won't even recognize the subtle
characteristics that relate this character to the
love the author feels for you.
You see, when a writer falls in love with you,
their words will reveal you in ways you had
never imagined yourself. When a writer falls in
love with you, you may sometimes find yourself
at the end of a loaded pen; you may find
yourself holding a piece of paper on which your
writer has inscribed the universe in a few lines.
You may find yourself with words that
overwhelm you. If a writer truly falls for you, you
may become the unknowing recipient of hidden
love letters composed of stars and light. You
may even be lucky enough to be the knowing
recipient of a love letter in which you are
painted in shades of sky. The writer won't
intend to make you so visionary, but they won't
really be able to help it, because suddenly the
words they treasure so dearly cease to be
enough. They'll write to you and about you,
over and over-- on pages full of scribbles and
crossed out lines, because in their minds, they
will be repeatedly failing to do you justice.
If a writer falls in love with you, they will begin
to see you everywhere. There will be obvious
comparisons in the writer's mind between the
two of you and the couples in every book read
and movie watched. But more than that, your
writer will start to find you in day to day
moments. You will be thought of as autumn
leaves are gently lifted into the wind. You will
be remembered in cool breezes on hot summer
days and warm fires on cold winter evenings.
To the writer that cares, your laugh will be
present in the pitter-patter of spring rain on dry
earth. You will be remembered likewise as the
ribbon of the typewriter spins. The front of the
mind, the tip of the pen-- that's where you will
be. Even if your place in the life of a writer is
ephemeral, if you are loved, you are eternal.
When a writer loves you, they cannot help but
write about you as they discover you in the
universe around them.
When a writer loves you, you can never die,
because long after you are gone, those words
will remain, and in them, YOU--immortalized in
ink..
(25/OCT/2012)
::::: PK ♥MâĎĎÝ :::::
