Waiting For That Beautiful Day

Do you ever reminisce

The endearing times we spent together

Sitting on a bench in the park

Amidst the towering trees

Replete with yellowish jacaranda cascading down

Or how we drew figures on the sand

With the tips of our fingers

While wandering along the sea belt

 

You promised me

Caressing my hands

That you would never let go of them

And, one day, you would clasp my arm

And walk with me to the farthest horizon

Thus we dreamt of the dawn of a beautiful day

 

Yet, it didn’t take that long for you

To fade from my sight

Along with those sketches on the sand

Melting away in the harsh waves

That abruptly broke on the shore

 

And I have no idea,

How incorrigible my heart is

The harder I try to refrain from lingering

The more I find myself immersed

Despite the awareness of the bitter truth,

I keep praying again and again

Waiting for that beautiful day to dawn