Which version are you

Which version are you

 

 

be careful of deleted scenes

when the director's cut

comes out, you will be identified

understood

 

your plot will be analyzed

and dissected

the love story exposed

for what you never gave

 

and the audience

just might sway

towards the villain

and you will become

 

the uncredited star

of your own movie.

 

erin-cilberto

6/19/23

Reviews

[Miss Sharon]

When commenting on an authors' work I am never quite sure if we are supposed to "interpret" the poem or just simply say that we enjoyed the work. I believe there can be more than one interpretation of a poem, so I will simply say that I always enjoy reading you Jacob...you cause me to think! ~Sharon

[jacob erin-cilberto]

I say interpret the poems as you see them...you are the reader and once the poet allows them to be read they no longer belong to the author.
j.

[W. Barrett Munn]

Yes, there are always two sides and truth invariably lies between somewhere; might as well show all the takes as it is secrets that make you old.

Winston

[jacob erin-cilberto]

I must have had too many...I am old.
thank you, Winston,
j.

[Chris Shaw]

Dear J, we each have our own life story. We as individuals know more than anyone what that is. There are good bits and bad bits. We live our own screenplay. Directors have butchered many a film and may not know all the facts. Social media is a quagmire in my opinion and many people have been judged on the basis of gossip and slurs. You have raised some Interesting thoughts here for your readers with this piece of poetry.

Chris

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you, Chris....it is encouraging to hear that I am still able to raise some interesting thoughts...at my poetry age. :))))

j.

[Chris Shaw]

Lol ………………….

[Coyote Poetry]

I believe, maybe we are actors in a terrible movie sometimes. I enjoyed your words and thoughts Jacob. Thank you for sharing the amazing poetry.
Coyote

[jacob erin-cilberto]

and the critics are panning the movie terribly...:))))
thanks Coyote...
j.

[Linda Marie Van Tassell]

One good thing about not growing up in the age of social media is that it doesn't matter. While people today are consumed with and driven by what others think, we lived our lives, rose and fell and fell some more, got back up, and kept going. It mattered not what anyone thought. The grace that comes from this is that we come into our own, without regard for what others think. It is our life. We lived it. We are who we are because of it. I am so glad that I do not live my life for anyone else.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

I am glad of that too, Linda.
Thank you for your words...and you pegged me.
Up until Junior year of high school I worried much about what my friends thought and made decisions in life based on that.
Once I stopped and really became my own person...what a change that was...Now in my older age, I am even more individual...and feel I have earned doing what I want to do, looking like I want to look...and I am pretty well accepted...
so I have not been stoned to death or anything.'
Thank you for your insights.
j.

[Linda Marie Van Tassell]

It would be the kindest gift of all if we could but teach young people to live their lives without fear of reprisal, of what others think. There is such freedom in that, and it's a freedom worth knowing sooner rather than later.