Storyboard, Film Tech I (partial)

Nothing's Lost

Nothing's lost.

It's just retained

in memory;

sustained in time

by impressions

on the mind.

Nothing's lost

but nothing gained

for this that is now history.

It occurs to me,

despite the pain,

that it will be forgotten -

though love remains.

Forgotten, forgotten

And what the cost?

I still believe

that nothing's lost.

Images -

and so specific -

address my mind,

and in terrific tunnels of feeling,

I find

we are the same.

Yin/Yang is a famous harmony

we cannot be together

but still, we can see:

hearts hold to love dearly

like a fragrance, or a feather

and what, through our disunity

we destroy, or we weather

will be mended,

and retained.

We'll not speak together as ever

before

- perhaps we'll never speak again -

but tell me, darling, what's the cost?

I still believe there's nothing lost.

- Nov. 2, 1987, A.D.