i can almost touch
your smile if i stand
on my toes,
i can paint my
mind with the
hues your tousled
hair knows.
i can navigate
an ocean through
your honey-colored
eyes,
i may get lost,
but i won’t mind if
the boats capsize.
i can hear you laugh
over the most trivial
things,
i can feel your passion
grow with each light
the morning brings.
i can hear your coughs
worsen gradually overtime,
i can feel your heart
pound as stairs get
hard to climb.
i can watch your hair
discolour and grow
rough and coarse,
i know that you can’t
smile without adding
some extra force.
i can hear you telling
me that you’ll be
remembered and famed,
i know that you were
scared of being a portrait
without a frame.
i know i told you that
we were both bombs,
others getting hurt
for the fates written
on our palms.
i never thought that
a bomb can lose,
but i guess that’s why
its shell shatters too,
and mine’s already bruised.
there’s small forevers in
a forever, and a story can
end midway,
its up to us to write a sequel,
so those who couldn’t make
it get their ‘somedays.’
i can tell you that, A, that
when my bomb’s close,
i can then touch your smile,
without standing on my toes.