my mind as calm as perhentian seas
and my heart like an infant's
I went to the islands with a blank notebook now overflowing
spent days with local people,
Germans, Italians, Austrians, Spanairds
lounging around all day in teal water at white beaches so bright you want to cry or sing or both
snorkelling with sharks, getting drenched in downpours, eating more roti canai than a person should
now, on my way home, I realize that this is my favorite time of year, following a dark season of the soul, I open my eyes and see a new star twinkling, laughing above me
lost in a daydream, I remember a year ago
a decision to change
the river's course forever
all exciting and new, scary
and feeling lost, I went toward the one thing that moved me
it was there, in the place I followed my heart
there I met an angel
who taught me how to laugh for the first time
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