What I learned on my summer vacation

What I learned on my summer vacation: airport hellos are better by far than airport goodbyes. Movie moments are better when you're a little nauseous from the spinning. Blessed with frequent flyer kisses. Moments you always thought were generic till the music plays and you're running to each other's open arms, the concourse theater company taking the tram to terminals across the world,  performing it's tales of hearts now granted to waiting lips. Ah, those movie moments are so much better than every tearful, "be careful", "this isn't goodbye", "I'll call when the plane lands" that any dramatist could use to pay his rent in tears. The actors joy emanating from the stage onto the audience, projecting the city wide presence of the oldest thespian, hope. A bird landed to sing it's song in new nests. The first airport minute still so far away from the last airport minute. That final destination as the music turns maudlin. Baggage checked, no time left to stall for, for hastily smoked cigarettes or long lingering hugs, and no smiles left to hide the tears under. None of that has even dawned upon you as the embrace, the lift, the kiss,(no spin) leave their mark forever on the stage, and the audience roars.