I stared at the rose tinted sky. It's weird how one day, one special memory can turn a whole scenery all about someone. In my case, someone I don't know and someone without a name.
Nasaan na kaya siya? at... tanda niya pa kaya ako?
Napangiti ako at patuloy na ininom ang kape na hawak.
"Doc Caelum, pinapatawag po kayo sa OR" I sighed. Can't the guy enjoy his coffee?
Bumaba ako mula sa roof top ng ospital at naglakad ng matulin papunta sa OR.
Pagod na katawan ko, being a doctor is so exhausting yet rewarding in the most special sense.
Sa edad na 30, kusa nalang talaga bumibigay katawan ko, pero kailangan eh. Kapag doctor ka, your career starts at the age where everyone is getting married and having children.
Pero ako, walang asawa, walang anak, walang girlfriend.
Yes, people frequently ask me bakit ganun? and I often answer them with the words, "Di pa po dumarating eh" o di kaya naman, "Hindi pa po kaya". Lies
It's funny how not even my friends and family know kung bakit hindi pa ko nag-aasawa until now. I never told them. I had some girlfriends over the years but it never worked out. Siguro nga dahil they weren't right for me or siguro, which is the most probable reason is that, I'm looking for someone else.
But I can't exactly tell my friends that, or my family. Sino ba magmumukhang tanga kung sabihin kong, I'm looking for someone that I barely know right?
Pink... that's all she told me, that she was the bright pink color to every sunset after the rain.
Siya ang dahilan kung bakit, sa tuwing pumapatak ang ulan, inaabangan ko yung kulay ng kalangitan sa paglubog ng araw.
Wondering, no-- wishing, wishing that after that disastrous rain, she's standing by the glare of the sunset, arms open wide, repeatedly asking for another hug before we parted ways.
My one week bliss, my pink skies, my reason why and yet, she's nameless.
An important stranger I wish to know.
I miss her. It's been years, I lost track of how many years it has been, of how many people I've met after her, I've forgotten a lot but each second, each minute I spent holding her hands as she cried inside my car as the rain poured is still engraved in my mind like she has always been a part of who I am.
But no one knows that, the girl who held my heart, and someone who I desperately want to know until now.
I sighed deeply as I washed my hands.
"Ready na po lahat doc" The nurse muttered under her breath as she gloved me up.
Tumango ako at muling tumanaw sa rosas na mga ulap. Nangangarap na balang araw, muli kong masisilayan ang kanyang mga ngiti.
Her smiles that illuminated that one week of rain we spent together.
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Pink Skies
RomanceRain gently falls whenever we say goodnight Falling like when you're out of sight Rain follows me even in my bed And rain is the tears that I shed...
