Who didn’t love her?
She was someone who influenced millions of women in having a simple little black dress in their wardrobe, each one desperately tried to wear it with the same elegance.
I so wanted to be just like her. Well, more like the Eliza Doolittle character she played. How I longed for a chance to reinvent myself and become a different person, so well-polished, fabulously dressed, and schooled in the best etiquette.
Me being me, I could so identify with spouting out some profanity at a crucial moment as Eliza did at Ascot. I loved that.
And I loved her heart, her dedication to others, as well as her remarkable talent. She was graced with the reputation of being a humble, kind and charming person, who lived the philosophy of putting others before herself.
Gregory Peck read this poem by Rabindranath Tagore after her death, a beautiful tribute to an extraordinary woman.
Unending Love
I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times…
In life after life, in age after age, forever.
My spellbound heart has made and remade the necklace of songs,
That you take as a gift, wear round your neck in your many forms,
In life after life, in age after age, forever.
Whenever I hear old chronicles of love, it’s age-old pain,
It’s ancient tale of being apart or together.
As I stare on and on into the past, in the end you emerge,
Clad in the light of a pole-star piercing the darkness of time:
You become an image of what is remembered forever.
You and I have floated here on the stream that brings from the fount.
At the heart of time, love of one for another.
We have played along side millions of lovers, shared in the same
Shy sweetness of meeting, the same distressful tears of farewell-
Old love but in shapes that renew and renew forever.
Today it is heaped at your feet, it has found its end in you
The love of all man’s days both past and forever:
Universal joy, universal sorrow, universal life.
The memories of all loves merging with this one love of ours –
And the songs of every poet past and forever.
Once Eliza, forever… Audrey Hepburn.
Flicker of Inspiration Linkup #44: Character
Your prompt this week was to write a post about a character who has influenced you in some way in your life. Someone you read about once that inspired in you a certain way of thinking or acting.
“Come on, Dover! Move your bloomin’ arse!“
