Alex CornellDirector or Design, Meta · interface designer, filmmaker, and periodic musician

A Lightning Storm Over the Ocean

6 Nov 2007 · 4 min

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Alex Cornell delivers a poetic monologue about emotional struggle, letting go, and self-worth. The piece uses the image of a lightning storm over the ocean as a meditation on what it means to release control and accept yourself.

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Thought you had all the answers to rest your heart upon, but something happened. Don't see it coming. Now you can't stop yourself. Now you're out there swimming. Yeah. In the deep. In the deep. Life keeps tumbling your heart in circles till you let go, till you shed your pride and you climb the hill alone and you throw yourself off. Now you're up there. Now you're worth this for me. Now you're worth this for me. And I do. And I do.

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