I had a great time,
even with the music blaring throughout the house,
and many slip-ups that you covered with your adorable laugh,
and me dumbly struggling to fit into my skinny jeans at the break of dawn,
you looked at me with that beautiful smile,
saying, ‘Would you like to grab coffee sometime?’
making me unable to say anything but,
‘Of course. Today at three?’
;
A man standing upon the edges of a bridge,
looking over the valley,
the green, green valley,
where he’d lay his body one last time.
He took a deep breath,
readied himself to jump,
when a voice stopped him.
‘Before you go,’ the voice said,
the man looked at the other guy, eyes full of tears,
just to see
a big, wide smile, a genuine one, with a pair of eyes, also full of tears.
He climbed back behind the bars.
;
At midnight,
when all the residents and nurses were in dire need of sleep,
when the sick and dying are breathing out their last breaths,
when the city already sleeps,
a loud cry rips through the otherwise peaceful hall,
the crisp, white hall,
the hall that heard more prayers than a church,
that heard another prayer,
of a life of health and happiness,
for the new, small, weak human being, just arrived on earth,
not knowing what lay ahead,
only the smiles of the people that stood around them,
the people that will love them forever until they are separated by the universe.
;
I lie on the couch,
the old, rotting couch that we bought twenty years ago,
when we were young and stupid,
just starting a new life,
with nothing on us but your old VW Beetle,
and a big dream in our eyes.
Now you have left,
left me alone,
to live my life in solitude and depression,
with daily crying and hurting,
because I meant it when I said I couldn’t live without you.
Yet your face constantly comes around before me,
smiling at me,
reminding that my time has yet to come.
Now tell me, my love,
why hasn’t it come, if not to torture me?
You are the only happiness I know.
Please stop smiling at me. Let me go.
;
I clutched the bouquet of flowers that the campus gave to me,
after I gave my valedictorian speech,
as the best graduate they have in this year.
I scanned around for a face that I know,
for a face that might wrap their arms around me,
telling me that I am loved,
that I am not just a piece of paper with the number 4 on it,
that I am a person
worthy of life.
I had given up,
when you came around,
clutching a smaller bouquet in your hands;
maybe from your girlfriend?
No matter;
because your arms immediately went around my neck,
giving me the warmth I have lost for years,
the warmth only you have ever given me,
and no one else.
I thank you.
;
A smile;
a small thing,
something people would look over,
but actually has a great impact
on someone’s life.
;
Don’t forget to smile,
and make others smile.
You might have saved someone’s life with it.
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(d. 11/18/18. 6:32pm.) | smile
