"This goes out to the broken hearted, the hurting but
continue to love because they’re idiots…
Ten things I have learnt from people in love; First, the
sweetness of the beginning. How every morning starts off with thought of your
beloved’s face. It fills you with excitement. When night time arrives, those
same thoughts linger inside your head and here, here is when you realize the
true power of a single smile, of someone’s hands brushing against your hair, eyes
that pear right into your very soul and two; how easy it is to feel content and
get used to loving, to drown in thoughts of us, of we and ours and yet then;
what of hers? What then becomes of mine? How easy it is to drown in the
illusion that what’s yours will be yours forever.
Number three, you’ll get tired. But fourth, true love is
never once cast aside as if not but fifth true love is not always fair to any
of us. If the wings it has graced you dodge become a burden and then into a
trap from which you cannot stand. If the very heavens that you once soared
becomes but a cage whose key you grasp shakingly in your hand but you can never
dare try and open and six; the fears of the flames one day do burn out, still yourself for the
pain but never once hold hatred in your heart for this is the seventh. Alone
shall you be left amid scars and bruises, into ash shall you become.
Eighth, prepare for its end. Ninth, I know none of you are
ready for the end. No one ever seems ready for it. And yet, number ten; the ends
exists and in that end, cherish your beloved; at a glance, from a far, from the
ashes left by the once burning flame of passion, love her still.
But when the
wings of love lost become chains that bind you, when the heavens you once
soared through becomes nothing more but a cage, love even still for one last
time then finally, let go."
By OTWOL's Rico (Juan Miguel Severo)