That Smile... by Ebony FallsSUMMARY: just a short piece of writing i did after weeks of not being able to finish anything i started. i dont know if its any good, but i havent posted much and thought i could at least add to what ive got. comments and ratings would be appreciated :)Picture that smile...
You remember the one I'm talking about. The one that seemed to radiate from your whole face, lighting your eyes like coloured candles and leaving everyone around you with that same infectious sense of joy.
It didn't even have to curve your lips, that smile. Sometimes the happiness and complete content you were feeling were projected only from your eyes. That didn't seem to make it any less significant though. In fact, I suppose sometimes it made it more important to me when you "secretly" smiled. As if I was the only person blessed with seeing it, and the rest of the world could only try and guess what you were thinking. I knew though...I always knew.
Do you remember that rainy day by the beach? Haha, I don't think there's ever been another time I felt as happy as I did then. Nothing but me and you, and the ice cream that dripped down our hands long before we could eat it. Hours filled with love and fun and laughter. And the people in their houses watched us from their windows, wondering what we were doing outside acting like teenagers in summer on a cold November day. They didn't realise that it was summer in our minds.
Nothing else and nobody else mattered apart from us back then. We were the two most significant people on the planet – the main roles on centre stage while the audience just looked on, wishing they could feel as carefree and important as us. Well, we had our fame for awhile didn't we? Other people are playing the leads now, and we're fading into background characters of another person's play.
I miss how everything used to be back then, when nothing fazed us; and we spent everyday planning a new adventure to add to the thousands of unique memories already filed inside the cabinets of our minds. After awhile it became so difficult to find new things to do and new places to explore, but no matter how mundane the activities you chose were, they always seemed bright and meaningful with you.
I wish I could see that smile again, that beautiful smile which could warm my heart through an inner winter. That smile that follows me in my memories and haunts me in my dreams. A picture isn't the same. A picture is just a glimpse, a momentary flash of emotion to keep me living. But it's not enough. It never feels like enough.
I've kept the candle burning by your photograph; a symbol of our love, our memories, and the hopes we had for our future. But also as a promise. A promise that we will see each other again one day, and that we will share that smile again.
Happy anniversary darling.
Rest in peace.
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