Love Story: Night Falls

Francis Lai's Love Story is the music composed in the 1979 movie starring Ryan O'Neal and Ali McGraw:  During Oliver's discovery of his wife's terminal illness in the streets of Manhattan and Oliver search for Jenny at school after losing his temper.

The piano composition flows accordingly to Oliver's state of emotions -- anger, disgust, sadness, and devastation.  My poem is inspired by the Oliver's (O'Neal) scene as he walks down the streets in shock of his wife's terminal illness.

  

Love Story, Night Falls

Disquieting visage falls down, drops here,

Concomitantly with noise that jar, grating,

Horns blare here, cars skid, swerve there,

I see nothing, I hear nothing, I feel nothing,

 

 

Silence falls upon the ground out of my mind,

Behind me and throughout darkness abound,

You fall away as the world drowns out all pother,

I see nothing, I hear nothing, I feel nothing,

 

 

Hush falls upon here, you hear,

As my knees fall there at the nadir,

Night falls deeper in the darkling,

I see nothing, I hear nothing, I feel nothing,

 

 

Now I watch your body molder,

Someday I may see you again there,

You may come back here incarnating,

Or I may see you in hereafter, as else being.