by Tomas Soejakto
June 22nd, 2007
I kept thinking about this long, empty interstate, with forests hugging both sides of the road. A little way beyond the trees to the right was the coastline, and beyond that, the clearest expanse of an ocean the likes you’ve never seen before but always thought possible, and that ocean was calling out to you.
A lonely car was speeding away on that empty road, parallel with the coastline. And as I was watching from high above, I felt like I was driving behind the wheel of that car at the same time. And there were these songs playing on the radio; songs for long, lonely journeys where you can do nothing but drive and get caught in the wake of melodies that won’t seem to end…
That thought always haunts me – in a wonderful way.
But that was just a story every one of us hope to happen once in a while.
This (very short) story, however, is about a color that defined a day in my life and in all of yours. This story is not mine, but ours:
It was raining, but it wasn’t just because of that.
There was a coolness in the weather that day,
and coolness in your smiles,
and there’s coolness in the way those smiles made it easier for me to sit or stand or walkabout.
That day was just about me being somebody who’s walking in and out of your life for a moment
and found out that you’ve lit up mine
for a lifetime.
I am far from perfect since I can’t be anybody else but myself.
But I will always have a smile for you.
Yes. You.
Thanks.
awh to’ ….. how you can be so dark grey and oh-so-lightly-blue in a same time is beyond me. You know what I love the most in this piece? The picture of that drive. The comfortability of being alone, captured perfectly.
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