I found her as I was navigating through the wilderness;
She's delicate but strong, fragile yet unbreakable
I met her under the moon,
Held her under the stars.
As the daylight slowly crawled from her legs to her cheeks,
I drowned in the words that I couldn't say
For I know that she's not mine to keep
I found her as I was navigating through the wilderness;
She stayed briefly but her presence lingered long after she left
For she was rare,
And rare moments with rare people will remain to be beautiful
No matter how fleeting they are
Aug 21, 2021
Aug 21, 2021 at 10:03 PM UTC
Beating vessel,
We've encountered way too many departures,
Settled for far too much fickle feelings,
Heard countless goodbyes.
So perhaps this time around,
We ought to stay safe
Behind these walls
That we should have built long ago.
This time around,
Let's cut to the chase, dodge the bullet
And say it first:
So long, perhaps in another reality.
May 28, 2019
May 28, 2019 at 9:34 PM UTC
You make the golden leaves rush down to kiss the earth
You make everything feel lighter,
As if being is weightless
And you draw the air from summer to turn it crisp and cold.
You know I've always adored the moon,
So you whisper to the sun to sleep earlier
So that the moon can stay out much longer.
Autumn, I've been waiting for you
But I know you can't stay long.
Despite your ephemeral presence,
You have brought me pure bliss--
For you put the grace in falling,
In beginning,
In ending.
See you again soon?
May 28, 2019
May 28, 2019 at 9:11 PM UTC
Her eyes were glued to the night sky
As she basked in the moon's soft glow
And the stars winked from afar,
She felt a tinge of thrill.
For the first time in a long time,
Hope embraced her.
Life might just offer some good will.
It was something new,
For madness
And darkness
did not envelope her this time around.
Feb 6, 2019
Feb 6, 2019 at 8:52 AM UTC
Farewell
one day,
we will reunite
beneath the blossoming
of the flowers that have awoken.
The songs of the church bell
will ring from a place afar,
we won't race towards it -
no, we are happy right where we are
because the sun is resting
upon our frozen cheeks,
and our souls are at peace.
We will share tales
of our pasts and families,
that we will no longer return to -
let us pluck the petals
from each and every flower
that we have set our sights upon,
and it shall drift onwards
floating across seas of clear blue,
and mountains of longful beauty.
Sitting in a circle,
our smiles at their brightest
and our laughter at its loudest -
one day we will reunite
but for now,
farewell.
Jan 1, 2019
Jan 1, 2019 at 7:47 AM UTC
As the sunset slowly melt into the horizon,
And the waves tirelessly sink into the shore,
There is still beauty in falling,
In disarming,
In loving,
No matter how hard we try to convince ourselves otherwise.
Jan 1, 2019
Jan 1, 2019 at 7:33 AM UTC
It wasn’t supposed to be like this
Never had I imagined this
After I first saw you
Sitting in the corner of the coffee shop
Sipping tea with a hint of hazel
Matching the light in your eyes
I used to love that coffee shop
One we went back to many times
At least at first
You would order the same tea
With the same hint of hazel
And I would adore your acute audacity
Ordering tea in a coffee shop
I had friends who told me many things
They hadn’t been afraid to see the truth
Telling me we were moving too fast
Not really understanding where we were
But instead taking the present to define everything
Perhaps I should’ve listened
I had thought you were what they describe as ‘The One’
But your brilliance in my life
Blinded me of many things I should’ve paid heed to
Placing me on the edge of your storm
Instead of reaching the eye of it
As I should’ve
Maybe this is why the movies are fictional
They only exist in our lives until the end credits
Whereas I lived past them
And witnessed the reality
Beyond the list of directors, producers, and actors
Living in a cycle of after-credits
We went to that coffee shop one last time
And I looked
Looked for that same spark which I had latched on to
All those years back
But this time I truly saw you, past the light
This time you ordered coffee
Black, with no hint of hazel
Nov 25, 2018
Nov 25, 2018 at 7:52 AM UTC
You:
The striking sunset
That I always try to chase.
The overwhelming ocean's deepest trench
That I swim so hard to reach.
The countless constellations in the sky
That I strive so hard to figure out.
You:
Are the sunset,
Are the bottom of the ocean,
Are the constellations--
Insurmountable beauty,
Immeasurable vastness,
But quite frankly,
Unreachable.
So darling,
Forgive me for trying so hard to reach you,
For forcing something that isn't there.
I think I'll just stay here.
I'll get used to adoring you from afar.
I'll be contented with the fact that I can never reach you in this lifetime.
For there's still some beauty
In cherishing you from a distance.
Nov 23, 2018
Nov 23, 2018 at 6:55 AM UTC
The room was ineffably dark,
The silence was deafening,
It was safe to say that I was utterly alone..
I walked,
And walked,
Until I could walk no longer.
I was searching
Searching for something that I don't know.
It was still dark
It was still silent
I was still alone.
It made no sense to continue any longer.
So I stopped.
And I waited,
Until waiting made no more sense.
And then He came..
First a glimmer,
And then a beam,
And then the room lit up,
Both suddenly and slowly.
He offered His hand and I took it.
Relief came unannounced.
The darkness,
The chasing,
The waiting,
And ultimately the surrender--
They all made sense.
Indeed,
There is beauty in surrender.
Nov 21, 2018
Nov 21, 2018 at 7:21 AM UTC