Heroine Lost
GiaB prompt #13 cinema
Have we progressed? 4K resolution film: for rent at thirty dollars. Because the theaters are straggling, while the rest of cinema is adapting, and chick-flicks are still called chick-flicks but the heroine has cried out — she’s the abused film-screen’s daughter. And like cannon fodder, the limelight actress can’t step out; her voice was praised for fifteen minutes and then, her life — forgotten.
Have we progressed? Do we hold dear the stories of the fallen? Do we watch the stars — big picture — never noticing Orion’s Belt unbuckling, or Andromeda’s struggling? Or do we search beyond night sky’s beauty, for a hint of any twinkling’s far away weeping?
Search! for a sign entwined with the Zodiac that even one tiny light isn’t salaciously winking, but burning out body heat, and in Morse Code, to us all, pleading that we build a ladder as high as the heavens, so she can climb back down to earth, where friends await to shower her — the damsel in distress — with the only light she needs — unwavering from within — to shine in her own story as the hero, once again.
