Aspira: Buku Catatan Dahaga

A LOVE LETTER TO OLIVIA

- February 22nd, 2016.

It's only the start

No death nor calculus

Above the simple sum of

Heart plus heart.

I could never be the storyteller of your own liking,

All my writings take turn for the darker corners of Poe and King.

I was never a child of the twilight;

I've always been a worshipper of the night.

But then there was you. I have never seen such passion

Into the faded colors of sundown—

The way your eyes burn so bright you make the sun shy away, twinkle so clearly you muted the stars,

Smile so beautifully you turn the full moon on her face.

You never took away the darkness of my night—you simply made it a safer place.

You dwell in the light, darling, and I in the dark.

But as soon as Khnum enters the raging Duat

For his survival, we are fighting another battle of our own:

Our paradise, our warzone.

We dive headlong, naked, armorless, into a whole new pit.

We laughed, we held hands, we gain so much speed

It's no longer a dive; we are freefalling

One I don't fear, for the first time

In all I've been through as I was living.

Please allow me to fix your filigrees

Heal your tissues, cuts and tears—

Take this wingless flight with me, we'll lift your curse

I will be there for you, all across the universe.

Thanatopsis will not deter

All the magic this love can infer

You are the sole reason my sorrow departs

Remember, Darling, it's only the start.

It's only the start.

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