Ryan Muddiman - Singer-songwriter-poet
  • birth.
  • words.
    • poems-unanchored lyrics >
      • sliver
      • gift
      • In Your Way
      • List of Demands
      • a portion of a thought of a glimpse of a moment of a mystery
      • ...not in the...
      • heal
      • ten years + old
      • How Long Might An Hour Be?
      • Dead Folk Are Funny
      • NY
      • Fall.Rise.Fall.
      • truth
      • eulogy/anagram
      • Center
      • Spiritual Striptease
      • differ
      • A Glass For Wine?
      • All My Greatest Works
      • I Want - I'll Take
      • A Season Of You
      • soles.
      • Deluge
      • Seeds
      • Words
      • Emotional Fallout
      • Cradle And The Noose
      • I Search For Tragedy
      • Will It Be A Real Page Turner?
      • Seeds Of Karma
      • I Tried To Give You Up
      • Lament
      • Lofty Thoughts Linger
      • Sleepless
      • Ghosts, Bullets, And Pills
      • Bleeding For Peace
      • At The Corner Of 8th And God Street >
        • I
        • II
      • Dancing
      • Love is a Ghost
      • Birds
      • A Curious Anomaly
      • Losing Time
      • Πολλοί άνθρωποι (Polloí ánthropoi)
      • Thirty Years
      • The Tall Grass
      • Black Rings
      • To Drown
      • Humming
      • Notastrokebutlife
      • For Buk
      • Skin Prison Suffering
      • Faces
      • A Love Affair
      • Knowledge Never Sought
      • Since The Fire
    • poems-anchored to song >
      • Lover Goodbye
      • Damn
      • Strange And Beautiful
      • Never Let
      • Burden
      • Novel
      • Don't Forget To Feel
      • Silent Blue
      • Song For Tyler
      • Humble Resolve
      • God III
      • He Said, She Said
      • In Spite Of All
      • Forever's Too Long
      • Scab
      • Lying
    • on writing >
      • Burial of Self-Delusion
      • Every One of Us
      • Letter to Self 9-1-15
      • On Exile
      • Filthy Whore of Demand
      • Music is
      • In This Moment
  • music.
  • elements of truth / press.
    • City Beat Magazine - Interview be Ezra Waller
    • City Beat Magazine - Interview by C.A. MacConnell
  • images-moving and still.
  • reaching out
  • death (BUY ME).
  • New Page
  • In This Moment
Will It Be A Real Page Turner





Will it be a real page turner?

Will there be countless dog-eared corners from having put it down so often due to it being such a long read; yet too interesting to be forgotten long enough to gather dust?
Will there be tear-stained pages? 
Will there be battered corners from having it tossed across the room out of anger, disgust, or hopelessness?
Will it be something you fear others reading, or, will you revel in the idea?
Will it stack up to the greats? Will people murder one another for its sake?
Will a heart skip a beat and a tiny gasp of air speed back down a throat as a tear is choked back, while grabbing for a sleeping lover's hand, just to make sure they're still there-or better yet- that someone is thankful they are?

No matter how devastating the tragedy of a chapter -or even two or three- may be, there is much more of the story than that one brief moment. 

We may share some of the characters, and even some crossover plots, but whatever the story is, take comfort and pride in knowing it's yours. 

The texture. 
The blemishes and imperfections. 
The weightiness. 
The whole of it. 
It has meaning beyond your comprehension of its pages.
A speck of dust or not, your story has transcendent worth

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