Life is a movie

 I sat to see a movie with Him—

a very long movie.

“Let's move to the interesting part,” I said.

No comment, but it was fast-forwarded.

“What happened here?” I asked.

“It was explained in a previous scene,” He told me.

And we went back and saw:

through quiet days,

long silences,

ordinary mornings with no music.

Back to the scenes I called boring—

the waiting,

the learning,

the becoming.

And I understood—

the sweet scenes don’t stand alone.

They are built on hours no one claps for.

Most times you want the miracle

but skip the process.

Yet the parts you rush through

are the very ones

teaching you how to stand

when the spotlight comes.

Every scene matters,

and the movie only makes sense

when you watch it

all the way through.

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