It was autumn...
Not much is remembered
Yet every single memory lingers,
Clear as if it was yesterday.
So I bumped into a stranger
I chanced upon a boy
That much, I remember.
This boy, he liked to wear his heart on his sleeve
The boy whose feelings were to always be expressed
As if they painted the canvas of his soul.
Déjà vu, we might call
Serendipity, it might seem
Or must be Fate, we might fall.
How much was there, to it all?
A few more, I remember
The intensity of our encounter
The depth of our conversations
The profoundness of our experience...
The brief time and the narrow space we were given...
All in that same autumn.
Yet, we consumed, all our given time
Yet, we transmuted, all our given chance
Yet somehow, we made the most of it all
Like 2 innocent pawns in a chess game played by the universe.
The world, it suddenly expanded
The souls, like a lightning flash, got swallowed into a beautiful nightmare
The nightmare from which we now must awaken
Awaken to the reality we once knew
A reality that was nothing but a dreamless dream we lived in.
Thirty-two laps around the sun
And we still wandered through this dreamless slumber
Until a day, someday of last October
The day I still can hardly recall
Yet the day we’ll always remember
Same day when destiny surrendered
Same day when the cosmos decided to ring our wake-up call
That day...when all the stars aligned.
Two souls looked up at the sky
Deciding if it was time to fly
Slowly, we awakened from all illusions of our so-called reality
The nightmare turned into the wildest dream
The old world suddenly faded into nothing but a sleepy, hopeless despair.
New reality, we have found
Unfolding of a whole new world,
A world where feelings abound
As if they were gifted from above.
His feelings, vast and true
Expanding at the speed of light⚡️
The same light speed where the seed of his soul took flight🌱.
Words, started to crumble
Touches, started to lose grip
Mindscapes, started to overflow
Where to, for these feelings to go...?
Gathering them all, so he thought
Laying them all down, so he did
Blank pages on a notebook...
Hoping to safeguard these feelings
Hoping to never forget them one day.
Never have I met a boy
Whose heart was secured on a notebook
His feelings - raw and shared
My core, it was shook
Never again, let my heart be forsaken
Forevermore, let my soul be awakened
Countless conversations, he whispered to the universe
Endless ruminations, he drew for our shared future
All contained in the same notebook
The notebook that’s journeyed some distance
The notebook that’s travelled some time⌛.
And then suddenly, I remembered
That my feelings shall too, be expressed
That I shall too, have a voice
That my stage shall too, be set
So here I am, telling my truth
That I, too, deserve a notebook
Where records of my memories took
My soul, a canvas, open wide
The notebook - the space, the home I reside📜.
So I began to write ✍️
Yesterday, let our texts be my space
The space he once held for me
But today, I realize
That I could too, hold my space
That I would too, find my canvas
That I should too, write for him.
A whirlwind romance, so I’ve heard
Met his mom, so I did
She, too, had a notebook
A precious mom to her son
The boy who told me to write.
So sweet I can’t! ❤️
This is so cool!! 🌸