people, places

i just discovered my favourite movie scene, or set of scenes rather. was watching before sunrise, and at the end of the movie, before ethan hawke leaves vienna, he takes a bus through the city. one can see all the places that were shot at the previous evening, when he and julie delpy walked around vienna - the circus, the bridge, the alleys with the cobble stones, the park...

i have sometimes revisited places that meant a lot for the memories that i had of them. most of these places seem to be in bonn, germany. like the zentrum, kennedybrucke, most of all the rhine. if i went back, to the naked eye they would seem like just a market-place, just a bridge, just another river. but there are so many many images that i can imagine would flash past my eyes...

felt like writing a poem on the subject, then discovered i'd already written one, or almost. quoting.

people sometimes forget
but not the river
it remembers

like the trees
and the earth
beneath the grass
and fallen leaves

when we go back
they will know us
as we will know them

with sweet nostalgia
that comes
from treading back
to forgotten times
never truly forgotten

miles - and years -
separate us, perhaps
still every meeting
begins with an embrace
and ends with a tear

so is it with people
is it not?