“Life loops in the quiet ordinary” they say. A collection of mundane moments, fleeting too soon before they’re even recognised. These statements resonated with deep parts of me quite often. One day after another, I carried the weight of life over my shoulders like a ship lost at sea, moving but never arriving. But fate knocks on the doors of all, even of those who stop calling for it, leading them to shores that they once only ever dreamed of reaching.
And on one summer evening, I found mine. It was one glimpse of him that I had caught, and yet it lingered in the air and in my heart, subtly drawing this moth into his flame, one brighter than the shine of the May sun itself. Perhaps, it was his silence that sang to me. His whispering melodies in chaotic crowds caught my heart before my ear. And hence, one greeting after another, a name that held no significance before began engraving smiles on my barren stones. One conversation after another, he turned the mundane into magic.
I began stealing momentary glances between breaks while he stole my heart, and I listened to the way he listened to my stories, reciting his name like my favourite song, and I smile at the innocence of my muse as he lays; so unaware that he is the art himself. He sees me with patient eyes set to halt the stars to hear my voice and soul alike, one more time. He fills a void I had tightly wound with my fears, untangling strings of ache one by one, freeing me from my own mind. The call, which poured tears of fear across my cheeks, I’ve always feared losing you—like trying to hold water in my hands,terrified of the spaces between my fingers.I didn’t know it was a joke. The silence I imagined felt like drowning, and I cried—harder than I ever thought I could.It was the first time my tears reached you,a raw, breaking kind of love, the kind that clings even when it hurts,because losing you would mean losing myself...but tonight his heart envelopes mine like a shrine in which I belong. His presence has now transformed me from within, and I rest in his comfort, for this season, this lifetime, seven of them and beyond <3
