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"Hold me tight and say you love me.
Let me dream a moment and fly.
The waters can't hold me too long.
Neither could I last in its cold warmth."

Summer of 2005. We lay in the sand while the waves kept
struggling to touch our sun-burned feet.
The sky is slowly changing hue as if giving the signal
that it'll consume the great fireball in just a short while.
This was my first visit to the beach after a very long time.
And in fact, this was different.

Last time, I laid at the seashore and stared blankly at the stars.
Wondering why they seem so happy in that very dark place they
are in. But I guess, that's because they're unaffected by darkness
for they are the complete opposite.
As for me, I am nothing more than anything that is not from the
ocean yet floats alone in its vast world. Just something like
a trash or a plastic bag wandering where it doesn't belong.
And not a single creature wants it for it, like I am, is suffocating.

But now, it's already dark. The stars had peek out from the black sky.
I looked beside me, and there's you. Smiling. Reassuring that I will
be fine, I belong and I have somewhere to go.