Footnotes

I notice now
how quickly the page turned and the chapter ended,
this part of the story complete and resolved,
merely another subsection in the grand picture, gone now.
The characters from before forgotten too,
their actions unnoticed and devalued as
they contributed little to the theme anyway, being minor characters.
What that they had known, before, their fate,
to be relegated to annotations and footnotes,
would they have performed their function the same?
Were they to have an understanding
of the rules of engagement, those wonderful
little
rules
that shield intent and guard truth;
When wordsmithing it is of vital importance
to always maintain a close watch on rules as
without them, the story
may
have
changed.