Late Summer Nights

Passing cars, dancing shadows, cool breeze, brightly lit eyes, a distinct feeling of summer break in a city of students. Everyone's gone on vacation, only you and the growing sense of seclusion wrap you up in the city's pine trees and warm weather.

At midnight you pass through the city's night market and you wearily walk to the food stands occupying the road. The rare groups of tourists that happen to pass by during this time of the year brings in a strange sense of company, you eat in the midst of them, and in the midst of the stalls selling cheap and exotic food. The street lights splash the surroundings with an orange light and you drink and eat the cold away; eating on the plastic tables set up by the stalls. Further down the road are numerous shops set up to sell clothes; people from all over the country looking at the incredibly cheap wares found exclusively in this city.

A friend then offers you a ride home in the middle of the night, you hop on and catch up on this person you see so rarely when there's school. The lights of the car illuminate his face but only vaguely. You laugh off the city's seclusion for a moment then you gently embrace it as this friend drops you off and says good bye. It would probably be a long time before you see him again.

Then you walk back, slowly, to your house and look, for one last time, at the night sky dotted with stars. You're home.

And you're safe.

Love.

You. You're the ring that wakes me up every morning. The person I stand up with trembling feet for. Feet unable to carry my own life but is magnificently able to carry the weight of a life spent with you every single day.

You're the expression of every mistake I never ever wanted to make in my life but also the lesson learned out of it. You're my dream condensed into a person; dreams of lying on the grass staring at the clear blue sky, waiting for the clouds to pass by.

It's not enough that you're the dream, you're in the dream itself. Forming layer upon layer of a universe that's designed by you and for you. You gave form to the meaningless fog that began to cloud up my mind. I must admit, finding what I really wanted to do in life crept up to me at night, slowly forming into my own kind of darkness, my sadness, my depression.

Here you come radiating a light unlike any I've seen before. You mesmerize me. I stand there dumbfounded with amazement being spelled out in my eyes and you face your back towards me, hold my face gently and pull me in for a kiss. With each kiss you plant into my lips, something grows - your love, my light, the answer to the darkness inside me; and then I just keep on getting brighter.