He Said, I Wrote And He Read

"Do not think you can get to know a person a lot better by reading what he or she writes because words are just one way of masking oneself..." - that was what he used to tell me when I first started writing. But for some strange reasons, he would always read what I wrote and wonder if those stories were real, were related to me at all. It doesn't matter if they were or not really... Because like he said "words are just one way of masking oneself", but I guess everything has its roots somewhere to start with...

Right On Time

You were 1 hour and 5 minutes late to pick me up that morning. In spite of that, thank you for not coming to my life any later because you made me find happiness a lot sooner.

Perhaps A French Way To Say It, No?

- I love you.

- I love you too.

- Why do you say "I love you too"?

- Because I do!

- No, I don't want you to say it like that! Just say "I love you"!

- Okok... I LOVE YOU! I LOVE YOU! I LOVE YOU!

- No! Not like that!

- Geez! What do you want me to say then? I just said I LOVE YOU!!!

- The thing is why do I have to be the one saying "I love you" first? Why can't you say it first?

- Because you already said it first!!!

- No... I've always been the one saying it first... I just want you to say it first, willingly, without the "you too"...

- Huh?! I say I LOVE YOU TOO because I simply feel the same way as you do to me! What's so wrong in saying that?!

- When you say "you too" it makes me feel you say it just because I say it first... And how do you know how much I love you? I love you a lot, a lot and a lot. But when you say "I love you too" does it ever occur to you wether you feel the same intensity and amount of love I have for you? If not then you shouldn't say "I love you too"...

- God, what are you on about?! Look, I love you too and that's it!

- Why can't you say it like the french do? When a french says "je t'aime" the other goes "moi non plus", it means "me neither" in a sense that "I don't love you more than you do to me"... It means they love each other equally, they both give and receive at the same time...

- Well... I'm not french...

- But maybe you could be one at times...

Alone Again

You look at me now
I never cried
because you never
gave me any reason to
not because you've always
been good to me
but because
you just simply
weren't around
to make me shed a tear.

You ask me now
I never told you the entire truth
not because I lied
but because whenever
you asked me something
I just never had enough time
to tell you everything
before you had to
leave in a hurry again.

You hold me now
but I'm no longer
the person you once said
"I love you" to
not because I've changed
but because I simply
just died before your eyes
could witness,
because you were always
somewhere else without me.

And now you tell me
if you are not too late now
when everything ended long ago,
when you had the time
to grasp it close.