Recurrence

The action takes place inside a tunnel-like treescape. A girl runs along a straight, unpaved, tree-lined road. Two long rows of splendid plane trees delineate the boundaries of the road. The trees are distributed equidistantly from each other, their upper twigs entwining in the middle high above the ground. A carpet of leaves covers the ground below the feet of the running girl. She is aiming her strides at a boy who stands still at the other end of the road. The boy is watching her run, a faint dot growing larger. He waits for her to reach him, expectation growing in anticipation. The scene unfolds before the boy's eyes. He sets the reference frame, fixes the point of view. I am that boy. I am watching that girl run towards me. She runs and runs and runs, slowly getting ever closer, and as she moves the ongoing circumstances change.  The girl grows older, her appearance fades away with every stride. With an effortful final step she reaches me. We touch. I take her aged hands in my juvenile fingers.