The Final Scene
In the final scene, our hero,realizing that anything is possible,
at last lays down his armor. In the final
scene the lonely prostitute is reunited
with her estranged son in a high-end hotel suite in Texas.
In the final scene the villain becomes
a friend, the team wins the championship,
the whale is finally found. In the final scene we see
Suge Knight at the prison phone,
showing his mother the map
to the treasure in his chest
for the first and only time, thus awakening
our audience to redemption’s always open door.
His mother moans with boundless
understanding, pink hand pressing
new love against the pane. Credits roll
to the sweetest song. The film will leave you
tearful, I promise. In the final scene
the director cleverly lays a family of easter eggs
for a franchise of familiar mutants tasked
with saving America but beset by grief.
When I kiss you for the final time darling,
the room will be silent and unwitting.
No one sees it coming when
the cowgirl shoots her horse.
I will try everything, beg the rain your name,
clap belief alive, leave the knots tied well and good.
A film has ideas of its own. Long before you
I learned the best resolutions inspire hope
and cut out quick: just when
she lies in the arms of her beloved,
all bare and blind with victory,
finally believing in the peace
that only comes at the very end.