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xi. promising piece

I miss the days when I was ecstatic about writing literary pieces almost on a daily basis. Due to the amount of schoolworks piling up during my eleventh grade, I lost the ability to write daily that lead to my passion for writing to slowly diminish as more and more days pass by. Instead of writing pieces in my free time, I prefer to get some rest and chat my friends instead.

Seeing my previous literary pieces posted on my Facebook account alongside this account made me realize how passionate I was into becoming a full-fledged writer in the future. This was way back when I didn't saw writing as a chore; writing is something that I do to express myself and something that I actually enjoyed doing.

Don't get me wrong, I still enjoy writing and I would love to write more pieces as life goes on but during these recent times, I realized that you can also find peace and solace in the simplest of things in life such as drinking a cup of coffee on a rainy day, hanging out with your friends on a sunny day or listening to music while reading a book.

Your birthday was fast approaching and what a coincidence that your birth month is what students consider as a hell month because this is the time that teachers are going to pump out examinations and performance tasks with the same deadlines before the first semester ends. I didn't have that much time to prepare an enormous gift; hell, I didn't even had the time to prepare a gift for my girl best friend.

All I had in my hands is the promise bracelets I bought from an online shop a month before your birthday. I would never forget the excitement I felt while browsing for a possible gift to give to you. I really wanted to make your day special; a day you would never ever dare to forget. I wanted to give you something that would represent our strong friendship and love for one another. Something that holds a unique and powerful meaning. Something that would have sentimental value to us.

That's why I bought the promise bracelets for us. It symbolizes the promises we made for each other that we would vanquish the negative times and celebrate the positive times together. It symbolizes how we are bound to stay by each other's side no matter how bad things may seem. To me, the bracelet is the most perfect thing to give you.

The bracelet's meaning prompted me to become creative. I planned on giving the bracelet to you at the place where we first spoke to one another which is under a tree that was in front of a church. I kept on smiling to myself, imagining how the scenario would play out and how this would be our moment. I could feel the butterflies fluttering widly in my stomach as my heart pounded faster and faster each second while I imagined the scenario.

I immediately thought of the idea to write at least four poems about you. I was itching to express my love and desire for you through poetic words with the center piece being a poem that flawlessly describes the meaning of the promise bracelet. I opened my heart and let my emotions come to life by pouring it to the paper that I was writing on.

My imagery for writing literary pieces is slowly reviving as I began to picture the two of us under the tree. The winds were blowing the leaves of tree and the sound of the birds chirping is music to my ears. The blue sky and the white puffy clouds were as amazing as ever and the sunlight remained modest, showing the right amount of light. As if the moment is made strictly for us, the area is purely silent and only a few students passed by the said area.

I visualized your brown eyes and how breathtakingly bright they were the moment I look at them. I visualized your soft black hair that I would gladly comb whenever its messy and how I would stroke your hair whenever you rested your head on my lap. I visualized your adorable chubby cheeks that I love to squish, touch, and kiss.

I wrote the drafts for my poems during free time in one of my classes. My classmates were minding their own business by doing their own things and my friends noticed that I was writing so they didn't bother to interrupt me. Physically, I'm in a classroom filled with enthusiastic students yet in my mind, I had my own world where it was just the two of us under that very tree. In my own world, there's no such thing as conflicts; there was only peace.

As I reminisce the happy moments we shared, my passion for writing is igniting once again. You ignited my imagery and my flowery words that had a side dish of heartfelt emotions.

You made me feel alive.

You made me feel all sorts of emotions

You brought color to my world..

And if there's one thing that you should always remember from me—

is that you will always be a promising center piece.

9:59AM | April 23, 2020