Thoughts I Keep to Myself (2)
You told me you couldn’t sleep that night.
The night when I blurted out everything because this feeling inside,
It’s like,
A raging storm that forces even the bravest fisher and the toughest navigator like my
grandmother to postpone her wish
To catch fish
For maybe two days
Or three
Well anyways.
While you were not sleeping that night,
I was outside in the front porch sipping a mug of tea
Which was getting cold from the coastal wind
I was just trying to calm this storm,
This endless thunder that was raging within.
But then the black sea waves in front of me
Reminded me of your hair
The noise of the strong wind sounded exactly like
the rush of the blood that made this heart beat faster
and faster
Like a roller coaster bolting through the air
Whenever you’re around
Besse Sangiang Liukang the Goddess of the Sea
Well maybe She understood me
Because all of a sudden the lightning strikes
It bolted continuously sending messages to the sky
The same sky that in which, you and I
Were enveloped in, that night
“I am sorry”, I pretended saying to you:
“But I can not hold back anymore
I can not sit here and covet from afar
Loving you silently as silent as the stars”
Well you told me you couldn’t sleep that night, right?
Well, baby, neither could I.
