I would follow you anywhere

Footsteps on unfamiliar footpaths,
we attempt to find our way back.
The rain picks up,
I whisper to the sky,
Perfect timing.
You panic, shove the sugar my way,
I giggle, lift my shirt to hide
the paper bag from raindrops
that threaten to destroy it.
We stumble down the trail,
spin in all directions,
not knowing which trail is ours.
You pull me to the right,
I follow because it's you and
I would follow you anywhere.

Remember
when we stood on the rooftop
let the stars kiss our noses
my favourite people
under one sky

forever in our fingertips

Today you get a poem.

It felt like forever in our fingertips,

Rocks flung from commitment-phobic palms

into a cacophony of water,

indifferent to our suffering.

And as we screamed obscenities,

unforgotten injustices,

into the river,

there was peace for a flickering moment.

A contradiction,

one second of feeling broken and whole;

empty and everything.

It was like forever in our fingertips—

 A feeble forever that we tied to those rocks

and half hurled from our bodies.

A forever that was sucked away,

involuntarily dismissed,

like the laughs bubbling from our lungs,

like the tears leaking from our eyes.

It was like forever in our fingertips,

slipping away because it never existed.

adventures in fate*: meeting Vita

I'm going to admit what you may already be thinking: I'm not very good at this BEDA thing. Like... I have good intentions and all and then I get locked in a lab room with my mom and there are blood pressure machines on us and we're supposed to talk about feels and everything falls to chaos.

That's basically what happened.

I also went to Seattle to meet a girl who I can basically sum up as my soulmate. Platonically. Don't make it weird.

So that took up some time.

Crossing the border both times, the inspection guards asked me what I was doing in Seattle and when I replied that I was meeting a friend and her mom, they wanted to know how long I'd known my friend and how we met.

Both times I tried not to sound sheepish when I said we've known each other for three years and we met on the internet. But it's hard not to sound sheepish when you tell people you're going to visit someone you've never technically speaking met. In my defense, meeting people from the internet doesn't seem as sketchy today as it did to me when I was eleven years old.

In short, it was lovely. Am I allowed to say that Vita and I have great chemistry without crossing a line? I said it. For two people who have never been in the same physical space at the same time, I think it's fair to say we hit it off. We literally just walked around and talked for hours and it was beautiful and surreal. The weirdest thing about the whole experience was definitely how not weird it was. I imagined it would be a little more awkward so I was surprised when it just totally wasn't. At all. Period.

It's been a pretty nice two days, travelling on the bus included.

*for comedic purposes only. I don't actually believe in fate. My view on soulmates however has changed since my encounter with the ever-amazing Vita. How could it not?