A new-found friend sent this to me in an email, dubbing it as the 'longest tagline ever...' When I asked him if it was okay to post it and identify him in the process, he was even so nice as to point out that this was written, not by Christopher Rudd (who, at first, I thought wrote it) but by Mike Carey, creator of the graphic novel, Lucifer.

Thanks a lot Chief.

Oh, and he writes funny too. I meant Chief, not Mike Carey.


do you remember the first lad or lass you loved?
when you felt your chest was too narrow to hold your heart?
when it seemed the world was made anew by your passion?

and do you remember the fear that comes with love?
the fear that it cannot last?
the fear that you cannot be worthy of it?

truly we were not.
none of us.
but did it not come anyway?

how we have poured our souls into another's lips and eyes.
how we have died and been born again in the ebb and flow of their breath.

all gone.
the flesh you loved is dust.
the words you whispered stir no echoes.

and it may be that the one you loved most dearly sits at supper now with angels, and has forgotten your name.

they think they mortify us with whips, and wheels.
but then, they have never lived, nor loved.
in truth...

...they know nothing of pain at all