Score |
3
Creative Director @ VFE
Three Thousand Miles and Counting
<p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p>"Gooood mooorning. Happy Anniversary"</p><p><br/></p><p>Hearing his voice so cheerfully through my speaker that morning felt like…</p><p>Well, it felt like everything.</p><p>It's only been ten months,</p><p>But it feels as if he's always been woven into the fabric of my world.</p><p>The way our hearts dance effortlessly around each other to the rhythm of our love.</p><p>In that moment…</p><p>As I heard his voice…</p><p>Something shifted in me.</p><p>I fell in love with him all over again.</p><p><br/></p><p>I think I'm a little insane sometimes.</p><p>I have never met him,</p><p>Never felt the warmth of his lips on mine,</p><p>Never held him close, felt the heat of his embrace.</p><p><br/></p><p>Yet I felt the softness of his heart from over three thousand miles away.</p><p><br/></p><p>Does he know?</p><p>Does he know how his smile sends shivers down my spine?</p><p>Does he know waking up to his voice makes my body curve in ways I never knew it could?</p><p>Does he know?</p><p>Does he know I grin sheepishly, imagining the day I share his last name?</p><p>Does he know that “happy anniversary” made me replay the last ten months of us in vivid, tender detail?</p><p>Well… that was yesterday.</p><p><br/></p><p>The memories I replayed made me pause at one…</p><p>The moment we fought.</p><p>The moment I called him names, painted him as weak.</p><p>The moment I said I’d walk away forever if he wished.</p><p>I didn’t mean that.</p><p>I could never mean that.</p><p><br/></p><p>Today, I apologized.</p><p>Truly, sincerely.</p><p>And he forgave me… all over again.</p><p><br/></p><p>We made each other smile once more.</p><p><br/></p><p>“Happy anniversary” isn’t just a wish</p><p>It’s a heartbeat,</p><p>A reminder that for ten months, I’ve traveled the delicate, beautiful journey of love with a perfect stranger from three thousand miles away.</p><p><br/></p><p>Perhaps someday we’ll meet.</p><p>And I’ll finally give him that kiss I’ve rehearsed twelve million, five hundred and eighty-three thousand, seven hundred and ninety-two times… over and over again.</p><p><br/></p><p>What have ten months taught me?</p><p>Love isn’t a fairytale.</p><p>Happily ever after is bumpy, imperfect, messy.</p><p>But if we are meant to be…</p><p>We'll always, inevitably, find our way back to each other.</p><p><br/></p>
Three Thousand Miles and Counting
By
Dolapo Oludairo
Dolapo Oludairo
0:00 /
0:00
|
5
Other insights from Dolapo Oludairo
Referral Earning
Points-to-Coupons
Insights for you.
THE MEETING
Sometimes it takes one meeting for our lives to change forever. It was never Femi'...
1232 views
12 upvotes
12 comments
OMÓ ÉSAN
They say the apple does not fall far from the tree, but I was the exception, or I was s...
1161 views
13 upvotes
5 comments
Comments