Starlit Nights Alone

…And we used ‘I love you’ like an apology for the things we couldn’t give each other.

You see, my mind takes me far, but my heart dreams of return.

He succeeded in being considered totally uninteresting. People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.

We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.

And I began to let him go. Hour by hour. Days into months. It was a physical sensation, like letting out the string of a kite. Except that the string was coming from my centre.

Everything’s a story - You are a story - I am a story.

How far have we come, how much further will we go? Can this ever stop?

Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free.

It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.