ardent-dedication

[ardent-dedication]

summer lets me love so recklessly, like we grow older while staying young, like the world is breathing its end, there is finality in the way i see my friends everyday, like every moment could be our last, like summer is the shelter before our inevitable doom, but i don’t think that i have ever been happier than now and there is beauty to our haste, our restlessness, we are one with the world as it moves at a speed where we can barely keep up. but i live fast, i count life by the days i remember and solitude is a stranger to me, i bathe in the splendour of my own happiness, i am the maker of my soul.

and at last, your most beautiful summer comes at 18, arrives like a gentle nudge of the universe, you feel so loved by the world and there is nothing that will stop you from aching for moments like these when life eventually moves on, but for now it’s enough, it’s all you need, and if there is anything worth existing for, it will be this.

[ardent-dedication]

i remember summer by your warm hugs that make me grateful to be alive, how wonderful it is to live in this reality, this world that allows me to simply be with you. how rare and marvellous to be one of eight billion people, not even a speck of dust in the endlessness of our universe, yet to sit here with you in your arms as if we were destined for this moment. it is the truth at the centre of the world, love persists above all and we drown our summers in it, smear it with the light of our bliss, kiss it with joy, sing it to sleep, and we shall call it divinity.

[ardent-dedication]

but summer can also be long and slow, so we fill it with the mundane but not the boring, we take what we know and we love it even more. the time we have for ourselves means coffee dates in the afternoon and drinks at night, it’s slices of our life put together to form something coherent, something lovely to remember the normal by.

we fall in love with strangers, we watch the clouds go by and we order the same things day by day; we are the only constant in this ever-changing world.

[ardent-dedication]

let’s have hot and iced chocolate in your favourite bar with that quirky name that rolls of your tongue perfectly. let’s have hushed conversations while sharing a blanket, my head resting on your arm because i can’t quite reach your shoulder. let’s exist in this universe together, because in all the other realities we have passed each other as strangers on the train, as hellos and goodbyes, as fleeting gazes meeting from across the street, as two lines running parallel to each other, destined to never intersect.

so let’s lie in bed and talk until 3am, because in this universe i can hold your hand and fall asleep, knowing that you will be the first thing i see when the sun rises for another day.