The One I Still Smile TowardElement : Air

The One I Still Smile Toward

Element : Air

By: Somi Philip Chempothara 

The quiet faith that stays

I do not wait to be chosen

I already was.

In a look,

a pause,

a shared breath beneath a thousand silences.

I do not cling to the hours

I carry them.

Like pages tucked between my ribs,

they flutter when I remember his voice.

I do not beg the stars for returns

I thank them for arrivals.

He came.

He loved.

He awakened.

That… was enough to write a universe 

And even now,

though no one sees,

I smile toward the east

toward the one my soul still turns to,

without asking

why.

-Ysomi