So Alive

My song/poem inspired by James Cameron's epic movie, "Avatar". Hope you like it!

So Alive (Inspired by the movie "Avatar")

Life

Is what I see deep in your eyes

Like the sparkle in the distance

And all around me it resides

And what I 

Feel

Feel the sadness in the rain

Feel the ground beneath my feet

I am free now once again

And take me

In

I see you so clearly now

And when the world's consumed in flames

We'll make it out somehow

Into the

Sun

As we soar into the sky

See the world in all its grace

But still I wonder why

I'm not who you are

But I know for sure

What I'm fighting for

I'm falling apart

But I know I've found

What I'm searching for

And I'm seeing the light

Now you've opened my eyes

The world is so alive

Time

Seems to stop as I look at you

At the glimmer in the trees

As it shines off the morning dew

Into the

Night

Hear the whispers of the past

And now you're by my side

I just want this to last

I'm not who you are

But I know for sure

What I'm fighting for

I'm falling apart

But I know I've found

What I'm searching for

And I'm seeing the light

Now you've opened my eyes

The world is so alive

I can't be who you are now

I'm not who I pretend to be

But does it matter at all now

Now you're here with me

Fight by my side now

Now that our time has arrived

And I'll come back to you

The world is so alive

Author's Note

Image taken from Wikipedia
In response to some readers, I'm explaining each and every reference to the movie. If you already know, or have a good idea, please ignore this.
The song is written from Jake Sully's perspective.
1) "Sparkle in the distance"/"Glimmer in the trees" - Anyone who ever watched the movie knows how freaking beautiful the set of Pandora is
2) "Feel the ground beneath my feet/I am free now once again" - Jake Sully is wheelchair-bound. While controlling his Avatar for the first time, he was so happy he could walk again...
3) "World's consumed in flames" - First battle against the humans
4) "Whispers of the past" - The Na'vi have a tree called the Tree of Souls, where a Na'vi can listen to the voices of his or her ancestors
5) "Fight by my side now/ Now that out time has arrived" - Final battle against the humans
6) "And I'll come back to you" - Neytiri has told Jake Sully earlier in the movie that the Na'vi believe those who die return as new Na'vi. This is what happens after Jake Sully suffocates in Pandora's atmosphere at the end of the movie and dies...
Hope that helped...

Reviews

[ScarlettTheDreamer]

Beautiful. I luved the line, 'the world is so alive' cause most of the time, we don't realise that. Good going.

[Charles]

This is, indeed, a wonderful exercise in writing. The format is interesting: single-word first lines that really complete the thought of the previous stanza... effective transition between stanzas and a good match for the changing scenes in the movie. The three stanzas that don't follow this format stand out, though I don't get a strong feeling about whether this is good or bad. This is one of those poems where I think I'd minimize the use of apostrophes... I first noticed the effect of apostrophes here in 'world's' in line 13. On first glance I wanted to make 'world's' a possessive instead of a contraction... this disrupted my reading just enough to be noticeable and caused me to look at other words like I'm, I've and you're, wondering whether the flow or reading might be better if the contractions were spelled out (I really don't know, but the fact that I focused on such things does suggest something). I don't think 'and take me / in' connecting the second and third stanzas is as smooth as the others (probably because I can't figure out the meaning/connection to the preceding lines) and the verb tense change in the last stanza is puzzling (to 'I'll come back' being said to someone who is already 'fighting' by your side). The theme and subject are well matched and flow nicely. All in all, well done.

[Kanattas Atir Enomo]

this was a beautiful piece, and it flowed really nicely. i loved avatar. great poem, based on a great movie. good job

[Ruth]

Ready to take that flight! lol
Awesome piece of work:)
Two have become both willing!
Excellent poem
xx

[Nianque]

At first I thought this was lyrics. Beautiful work like always. Keep it up. :) The last stanza really spoke to me.

[indieRokker]

You did an amazing job in this piece (: It's a very unique piece.

indie♥

[ghost writer]

omg. kope avatar

[Tracie Skarbo]

Wonderful job on this!! I have not seen Avatar but have hard it is really good. I know you have do it justice with this one. :)

[Zeitgeist Manifesto]

You did a great job here. You took the story and shrank it down.
I like the images you have provided here. One of my favorite things
is how you have expressed the feeling that this person is inspired
by someone they wish to be after their personal growth is complete.
Your poetry is always lyrical. I see a natural song writer in your work.
I believe your poetry is great, but I don't your style is meant to be read.
Creating music for you, will be a slam dunk.