Wednesday, November 16, 2011


Back then, we would count our days together: Seven, Thirty, Three-Hundred and Sixty-Five. And Before we could stop to think, we had become the safe parts of each others' minds that slow down our growing up. You and I. we were Us.

But then you grew out of me, and into the city. And I could feel it in the shortness of your breaths and the quickness of your eyes. How your veins were flooded with carbon, and your skin shrouded with whatever heat it could gather. You were becoming more of a line than a point, a blurred stream of your routines spread thin across the minutes. You were racing to become all of yourself in an impossible time.

I remember missing you in those pendulum swings. You were unfathomably quick, I'll commend you for that. Quicker than life. Quicker than me.  But then one day, you stopped ticking and my world stopped moving. And then the doctors started counting down: One-Sixty, One-Twenty, Eighty, Fifty, Thirty, Twenty, Ten.


And so I simply stopped feeling.


That's how you left me. Do you remember? I guess it's silly to think that you would remember such things.

But anyway, I hope you're doing better now. You deserve it.

3 comments:

  1. "I remember missing you in those pendulum swings".

    Simply beautiful. All of it infact but esp this line. :)

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  2. Someone left me exactly this way, but you know what, today I am doing much much better than he is.

    End the pain. Like you said all is well that ends.

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  3. WOAH! :O
    Wonderfully expressed.
    Stumbled upon your blog from somewhere. Glad that I did. :)

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