There's this amazing moment in The Last of Us, a game on the PS3 for the initiated, it's right before the final action of the game and the two characters pause and watch a herd of giraffes wander over a ruined city scape.
In such a bleak world there's a ray of hope and wonder, moreso than that though wanting to play but it's also a moment where we truly get to see that the characters relationship has dramatically changed from initial ambivalence, you xan see they care for each other and it's only now they both begin to imagine a different future and road to the one they are currently on.
Anyway that's a little back ground, google Vanishing Grace off the Last of Us soundtrack, this is the music for this portion of the game and I think more than anything that captures the complicated place the characters are in. Anyway peeps this is my quick tribute to what I consider one of the coolest games I've ever played.
Giraffes
Tall and untamed
Grazing the graveyards of our cities
In the majestic light
There is an absence that can be imbued with hunger, happiness even hope
Cold dark pupils that perhaps miss the sight of the ruin about them
With odd antennae poking out of their beak-like snouts
Perhaps they are the alien heirs to this empire of stone cold steel
A collection of poems and musings by a rookie poet and constant dreamer - J.O.S.H
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