The view from halfway down
This is a poem written for a fictional character in a netflix original called Bojack Horseman. The characters name who recited this poem is named Secretariat. Secretariat is a movie star who Bojack (main character and also an actor) idolized and considered a father figure. The poem is recited at a dinner party that essentially Bojack is hallucinating following a near fatal overdose. In a transitional limbo to the afterlife hosted by Bojacks dead friends and family, each person gives their “last show” as they cross over and throughout Bojack is increasingly desperate to cling to his life.
“The weak breeze whispers nothing
The water screams sublime
His feet shift, teeter-totter
Deep breath, stand back, it’s time
Toes untouch the overpass
Soon he’s water bound
Eyes locked shut but peek to see
The view from halfway down
A little wind, a summer sun
A river rich and regal
A flood of fond endorphins
Brings a calm that knows no equal
You’re flying now
You see things much more clear than from the ground
It’s all okay, it would be
Were you not now halfway down
Thrash to break from gravity
What now could slow the drop
All I’d give for toes to touch
The safety back at top
But this is it, the deed is done
Silence drowns the sound
Before I leaped I should’ve seen
The view from halfway down
I really should’ve thought about
The view from halfway down
I wish I could’ve known about
The view from halfway down”
-Secretariat (Bojack Horseman s6e15)
About the Creator
g.m.t
bare bones,
here are rests the things ive wrote,
to purge, to mend whats broke.
read, or dont. <3
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