Aesthetic Moments
The aesthetic moment
lasts 15 minutes maybe
when my heart(your heart) harmonizes—–then it stops
and we’re back where we were before:
I’m picking at the broken button on your couch
and you’re plucking guitar strings,
playing playful melodies(not at all)
reminiscent of this moment.
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I wrote and rewrote this poem start a million times. I kept adding stanzas and cutting them. I guess I’m not sure where it’s heading.
There’s a communication theory known as Relational Dialectics which says that relationships are always in flux. I’ve written about this theory before many times. It’s so true. My relationship with my mom, my sister, my boyfriend, and my best friends are always, always in flux–
Until they’re not. There’s something called an Aesthetic Moment when that tugging and pulling of the relationship ceases, and all seems right in the world.
It’s the first kiss. It’s sex. It’s laughing. It’s a deep conversation over coffee.
Aesthetic moments don’t last. They’re just moments. Sometimes they last a few minutes, sometimes for weeks. But when they end — it sucks.
Lauren
September 18, 2011