All I Wanted To Do Was Save You Poem by Richard Ford Bunuel Whale Carnegie Edison Simon Hitchcock Welles Christ Antunes Rodriguez Kubrick

A damsel in distress
Or a girl to be held
I see you from afar
And know not who you are

A waif of a girl
Not quite yet a super star
A girl deserving to be
Known wide and afar

By a populace to know
You by only one name
Your frst or your last
Like a Madonna of old

A holy virgin of a star
Like a constellation
United together in the skies
At night forever beside

Each other in place
For billions of years
Or the duration of lifetimes...
Never apart

I know you to be
Factual or by instinct
A woman to honor
To save you like a hero

Like Errol Flynn did
The heroine in his films
Olivia De Havilland
In The Adventures of Robin Hood

From Claude Rains in that film
Or in the 8 films
Errol and Olivia
Starred together in

As onscreen lovers
As we could be
Off screen together
In love with each other

Forever like the films
Of Olivia and Flynn
Forever together
As images and sound

Of the films
Reflected upon
The retinas for the 1st
Or umpteenth time

To cathartically
Live out the romances
In all the eight films
They starred together...

Forever to live