I thought that loneliness was a safe place to hide away and isolate myself from strangers with stories still untold, but I met you.
When I met you, your eyes were a densely packed thick book waiting to be read and understood.
Some people called me a madman, others called me stupid, while many didn't even bat an eye, I pursued to read you with all my heart and understand your side of the story.
As time goes by, I started to understand you. Little by little, you showed me the things that ruined you, you told me about your lines that felt like out of place.
I lend you my eyes for me to see that you had the right script but the wrong lines, I lend you my ears to let you sing about your unsung lyrics, I lend you my shoulders to let you rest from the eyes and mouths that haunts you, I lend you my silence you could speak up about your thoughts that you keep on whispering to yourself.
You told me about every terrible thing you did, yet I loved you anyway.
I started to look at you like you were my whole universe, you cried because why would I call you my universe when you were full of dead stars, debris, and an empty void, I simply replied 'Even a ruined palace can still be called beautiful.'
But as the days passed by, things started to change.
You would only let me read you if you were sad, so I stayed and listened.
You would cry on my shoulders and tell me about your problems, and when things were okay you would just leave.
I held you too tight that I didn't even notice that you held me too loose, so I started to slip away.
I guess I forgot that you had another reader, you told me about him how he makes your heart flutter, how he makes you smile, on how he makes you laugh, wish I could read that side of the story.
So, with my heart filled with melancholy, I left you.
I learned you slowly, I was patient with your pages, yet I was the one who had a bookmark stuck into my heart because you walked away subconsciously.
- Author: Cherry Blossom ( Offline)
- Published: September 9th, 2023 07:54
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Comments1
This write speaks to the soul. We so often give of ourselves, change ourselves too, just to accommodate another that we may have become infatuated with only to have them walk away. Sad truth here as it happens so often. You expressed this with tact and clarity. Good writing.
Thanks Michael!
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