Someday someone will hear your plea
That under the facade of silence, there were silent screams

Someday someone will witness what happens in the dark space between blinks,
and in the void between your labored breaths

Someday someone will figure out
The puzzle you've made of yourself...
Will fill in the gaps left by your missing pieces
and will make you feel like you were never incomplete

Someday someone will see your strength
How you struggled, how you strived
How you fell and stood up
How you managed to survive

Someday someone will see you in a perfect light
More than the way you wanted to be seen
Someday someone will find the real you
and I hope that certain someone will be you.

I am the marionette’s puppeteer
Beside her is where I always wanted to be near
I swear I’m willing to offer her my every tear
And to lose her is the only thing that I fear
 
My marionette’s name is Reverie
Sometimes she is just so proud and hardheaded
So I have to control her harshly
I know she always gets me wrong, but still I love her wholeheartedly
 
In our world—the art of puppetry
Where the primary goal is the audience’s gaiety
This love for my one and only Reverie
has no place and is considered unseemly.
 
Sorry if I have left you, my beloved Reverie
For there is no such thing as love in puppetry…
Forgive me for I followed the norms of society
I loved you but if you think I dumped you, then let it be
 
I know I’m a coward for I instead married
a human— a woman with dignity whose name was Valerie…

The hour glass was turned upside down
and my time started to run.
Ladies and gentlemen, please throw away your frown
‘cause my show has just begun.
 
As the lights started to shimmer,
he now uses me as he willed…
My strings are being pulled by his fingers
pulling them harshly, for him to be thrilled.
 
I am his marionette,
and he is my puppeteer…
With him, every inch of my life is set
and I know my happiness will never be sheer.
 
Now that he’s done with me, my show has already ended.
He just dumped me and on the floor is where I unconsciously landed.

“This is where it stops, this is where it begins
Every moment, every day
This is where it stops, this is where it begins...”

It began with a glance at my scope
There blossomed a tinge of hope
That maybe the moon would find a companion
In an astronomer like me

So I tried to get closer ‘til I got weary…
For some nights, it showed its warmth
But most nights were just a blur...

Maybe the moon is destined to be admired from a distance
Or maybe the moon wanted another ‘heavenly' body
Who knows? Who knows?

Here I am troubled by uncertainty
and constantly baffled by the moon’s inconsistency
and I do not want this anymore
Not today, not tonight
So maybe it’s time to pack up my scope
For tonight, I will not be looking up
For tonight, this is where it will all stop.

Tonight as I lay down under these endless skies
There were certain things I’ve come to realize
That it’s already been a year since you first set my heart to veer

Now if I were to tell how our story went
I’d say that from the realm of strangerhood in a Cartesian plane we were sent
Two opposite lines that were bound to intersect
Or at least at that fateful moment, I felt we connect

At that time, stars were aligned
Chains were casted for hearts to bind
And to account for each time our paths have crossed
To our skies a checkered plane is what we have tossed
Forming a constellation of smiles and avoided gaze
Of an illusionary friendship and uncrossable space.

As one side of the hour glass was slowly drained of sand
Consequently, chances were slipping off my hand
For me to get to know the better of you
And for me to show how much you’ve meant to me.

Truly, time is a **** for it screws everyone
It is a monster that pities none
But today, I will let myself be its prey
For I know after the exalted day
Seeing you would be an improbable dream
And someone’s world will surely dim

Tonight, I will let the stars do their job
The empty darkness of the night they will rob
For they will illuminate this verse to you
These last words I’ll offer you.

The immense coldness of the night is seething through my very core
Voice shudder, wine bottles on the floor
Once again, I’m iced with this misery
But I remember you’re here, I know I’ll be happy.

To “hold infinity in the palm of your hands”
I now understood where William Blake stands
That’s what I’ve perceived the moment we walked hand in hand

Stop all the clocks as Auden said
When I’m with you, who cares when the world would end
Your smile suggests what beauty our future will be
Your eyes gleam the promise of eternity

You’re giving me light beyond these shadows
Your love is a drug I’ll take at any dose
Believe me when I say you are everything to me
‘cause with you is where I can grasp infinity and eternity.

People say you are a mere satellite
but to me, you are the center of the night
under the blanket of darkness, I see your light
how you struggle to illuminate others with all your might

Absurd as this may sound
slowly, I began to understand
what shouting to the void really means...

Please listen as I tell you
I only have my lens for you
out of all the celestial bodies in the sky
you are the one that captured my eyes

I adore all your phases
love all your scars
but to you I'm just an idle dreamer
observing from a far.