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Reserve

As I sat on the sofa, I leaned against an invisible shoulder.  I walked quickly right toward him. He also came toward me, so quickly that we almost hit each other's heads. We both laughed. The obstacle was that I couldn’t see what was holding me back today. 'I shouldn’t have run toward you. If I had been a little faster, we could have ended up hitting each other,' he said. I didn’t say anything. I thought the funnier this meeting began, the better it would be. Yet, typical him, he just a mind-reader. I only smiled and replied, "Let's just go walk, now." yet I remained frozen in space and time, just me and emptiness. We're walking to the city park and just went around, nothing really far but our steps actually might count like a mile. Restless just with him. I simply sat in silence, lost in my thoughts. It's nothing like there's no other place we can be. It's just I found my complete and I don't need to find anywhere else. "If only our ...
Do you know why it's hard to say goodbye? Because we afraid if our memories might not be able to remember them, rightly. The fact is, goodbye means good. No matter how hard.
~Aurora Esterlia

Waking

              The world is so different now. I pretend to sleep so it won’t disturb him. I know he’s been sitting next to my bed from this morning. He hasn’t tried to awake me. I don’t know if I should start now. The room has been so quiet since I have already awake. I haven’t try anything. I am still comfort with all things of nothing and dark. But now, I can sense lights around me. Somehow I could sense shadows pass around my bed. It must be him. Later, he touched my left hand and it is like a pinch bite on my skin.               “Uh...”               “Olive?” He caught my movement. I guess it is time to finally awake. I haven’t done any move. But, the reaction of pain actually moved my hand and my eyelids. “Alright, are you awake?”   a simmering voice came closer to my face, “Ar...