Me Without You

By RL, To K

Like bright colors to a flower,

Blossoming in the early spring.

Like big wings to a butterfly,

Creeping out of a broken cocoon.

Like yellow-green leaflets to a seed,

Just awakened from its bedroom soil.

Like the bright yellow sun to a dawn,

Growing out of its darkness.

Imagine a flower without bright colors

Imagine a butterfly without its wings

Imagine a seed without peeping leaflets

Imagine a dawn without a growing sun.

That would be me.

Me without you.

Brokenness

-RL

It was back in 2010, October 28

Have you remembered?

The noise – shouting, the crowd

All outside the little bubble we shared

In the classroom corner

Far away from the land people know

Everyone was there, friends

But they weren’t.

Everyone saw us, friends

But they were invisible.

Everyone talked about us, friends

But they said nothing.

It was then when you moved closer

I can feel my hair rise

Everything was rising – blood, tension, love

Your lips, closer to my ear than my ear itself

There, you whispered sugar to my ear

“Will you be my, girlfriend?”

My “Yes!” faster than light, went

Your smile wider than the universe, grew

I was yours, and you mine

2010, October 28 that was

And now I have forgotten

Forgotten the feeling of brokenness.