Sanctuary [Poetry]

05-17-2021

I've seen you everyday, we've always been together and often times I'll caught you smiling and laughing along with our friends. You weren't always the center of attention but you sure are our precious little you. Everyone loved you, everyone loved how of a good person you are, how nice you are, you're our little bundle of light.

To me, you're my sun.

It was a casual June, a season of rain but warm nevertheless. I was walking on my way home when I saw you at the corner of a unfinished pavement just at the intersection of the street, sitting comfortably as if the place was yours.

It was cold, the night was pretty much lively with the street lamp lights and people going to different directions and yet it made me feel like they're just art displays and you were the main theme for the entire place.
The lights were shining on you, highlighting all of your beautiful sides, like a spotlight, but better.
On that day, I saw you in a different angle.
You were looking up at the sky, like you're trying to find something and the moon was gazing shyly at you, giving you an ample stroke of light, and the stars, as few as it may be, felt like they're admiring the simplest of your form, like it's enough to mesmerize them.

There's no smile painted on your lips, no emotion blushing on your cheeks—and at that moment, I knew, with your unmoving body, that relaxed shoulder, and the sensation like I was being drowned just by mere watching—I was certain that it was the very first time that I saw you.

You're a stranger we never came to know, a stranger you didn't introduce to us—a stranger you probably decided to hide.
I think I understand. The mere sight of that stranger made my heart ached. I don't know why, but I was at the verge of stepping forward...but I decided not to.
It felt like I'll break something the moment I call you, it's as if you'll shatter into pieces.And with a heavy heart, I walked away, hoping one day you'll show that version of you.

Besides, at the end of the day, still, you're my very own...sun. It didn't change.