Fading Love: I sit on the balcony overlooking an endless sea that fades into the skies. The candle casts my silhouette upon that sea, and I wish I could be transformed into one, to be carried off by the wind to be with you tonight. Only the tears and sweet memories of your soft lips touching mine keep me company at night. Sometimes, when the wind blows through the open balcony doors and caresses my body, I imagine I'm back in your arms again. But, alas, the only physical thing that remains of what we shared is this rose that I found on your pillow the next morning, after we spent our last night together. In the accompying note, you said that it was a symbol of our love, and that we would be together, again. But like the rose, our love will fade, and the earth will be crimson with its fallen petals, and our love will eventually die.
Reason for writing:
The reason why I wrote this poem was to be true to
my girlfriend, who lived in California, and to my heart. We
met in California, in the summer of '93. When school
began, I had to move.
And I didn't think a long-distance relationship
would work, especially since I live in Maryland, now. We
would have to be away from each other for 4 years, until
I return to California to go to college and to eventually
marry her.
At the time I wrote the poem, we were both freshmans
in high school, so 4 years in our young lives would be
equivalent to 20 years in our adult lives. So many things
could change within that time: our personalities, our
hopes and dreams, and my worst fear was that our feelings
for each other would change.
Writing the poem was one of the hardest things I
had ever done in my life, and giving it to her was another.
But by doing so, I proved that I had become a young adult.
I know it was the right thing to do but:
Sometimes I feel the arms of the wind holding me,
and I imagine it's her. Sometimes I hear the whispers of
the night calling me, and I imagine it's her. And sometimes
I dream of happiness, only to wake up alone, because I know
it can't be her.
Heaven Le
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