Midsummer Wish

Hundreds of tiny lights were glittering over the lawn!  As I gently sipped the red wine while sitting in one of the rocking chairs on the spacious front porch, I knew they were fireflies that, like me, were trying to find their way through the balmy midsummer evening.

A live band was playing in the backyard-- entertaining the partying crowd over there but the sound was gentle enough for my eardrum to handle.  I was alone but didn’t mind the seclusion.

Gazing across the road, I noticed that there were actually thousands of fireflies around-- swarming and sparkling over the lush soybean field!

I could only wish you were here!  We could've enjoyed that beautiful sunset together... that lovely vista as the old, red family barn gleamed in the rays of the setting sun, casting sharp shadow on the little vineyard and its adjacent cornfield.

Oceans away, continents apart...  I couldn’t stop thinking about you.


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Parting Ways

I wish this is only a nightmare... or a page on a novel manuscript of my life that I can simply tear away.  But this is real, I am certain... this is not a dream.  This is where we part ways!

Why can't you stay?  Why can't I make you stay?

All I can see now is a silhouette of yours-- gradually fading away in the dense, winter fog.  Amidst the softly falling flurries that's been filling up your foot tracks, here I am, left standing alone, watching as this heartbreaking scene is unfolding before me.  Absolutely crushed, I am, like the snow beneath my sole!  All I have now are those warm memories of ours-- flickering like these vintage street lamps through the early evening snowfall.  

Good luck on your new job assignment and may you find someone to love somewhere out there.