Traveling (Movie contest)

I just needed
a break,
so I headed north
to the lake.
The island was quaint,
the hotel quite grand.
Before long
I felt time just
slip away...
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Poking about a dusty
old museum
I came across
this vision of beauty,
displayed in portrait form.
I had to meet her...
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Small problem,
I was about one hundred years
too late.
Nothing daunting about that,
now is there?
But I have always believed,
if there's a will,
there's a way.
I sought wiser council.
A free thinker.
Time travel....
Radical yes, impossible meh- -
Obsession drove me to her,
the years peeled back,
the object of my obsession
standing there, flesh and blood,
beauty and brains.
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She was an actress.
Talented, a shooting star,
I was in the way...
Her manager, two agendas,
riches and her.
I was in the way...
Try as he might
he couldn't stop love.
I fell hard, deeply, fully.
Each day was new,
she was my life,
I was hers.
I could do this forever...
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My world came to an end
in the form of a coin,
tucked into a pocket.
A present day coin.
Not of her world,
but of mine...
It snatched me away from her.
I was not to return.
My heart, still one hundred years back,
stopped beating that day.
They found me present day,
still clutching that damn coin,
only a shell of myself.
I would never
travel
back to her....