Televisor (An Original Poem Inspired By Father Ernetti's Chronovisor)

I have a vision
I watch the dead
Watch them dance
Watch them sing

they live, they laugh
they grow, they cry
they love, they hate
they die

I rest and wonder why

I get up and wander
through the river Life
wondering
Am I better
for all their strife?

Now, how would one go about making a motion picture out of my short simple poem? Impossible! Filmmakers have tried to capture the essence of poetry, to accolades and criticisms!

The word "televisor" eventually gave way to "television" and you can read more about the "chronovisor" and its quirky fabricator here.

The idea for this poem came suddenly while I was driving. I dictated the words, as they came to me, into my mobile phone. It could either be interpreted as a work of literary zen, or perhaps more accurately, a poem questioning the usefulness of watching television, specifically, old movies from the 1930s where all of the actors are now dead. Celluloid ghosts, representations of beings that once were.