Hi… I am just a girl in her baggy sweatshirt, alone in this starry night,
Finding comfort in the cool summer breeze, and the silent moonlight.
Sitting on the stairs, thinking Beneath the Stars with her eyes closed…
So tired of always being the epitome of same old calm & composed.
If only I could stay here & make the time still…
If only my unsaid words were heard, I know they never will.
Suddenly I heard footsteps, I was startled for a while…
“Mind if I sit here?” he asked with a childlike smile.
His frat boy persona is charming! – Heart whispered for me to know,
He seems nice! – Brain confirmed after the obvious first intro.
“I hate when I can’t sleep,
God knows why all these random thoughts live in my head.
You know when I was little,
I wanted a job that allowed me to stay up all night. “– he innocently said.
“A house with the largest slide at the entrance – that was mine!”
Raising my hand, I blurted out, admitting that I was also one of his kind.
He started laughing, and I joined in before I knew.
Looks like a harmless fellow…
Would it be alright if I share a secret or two?
“Someone’s judging me!” he narrowed his eyes with a side glance.
“Ma’am I can be a delightful companion,
If you can just give me a chance.”
“What were you thinking before I came?” he asked, fumbling for something in his pocket.
My Brain warned me to be quiet, but Heart had its own plans to block it.
He was playing with the colorful candy in his hand, waiting for me to reply.
“Sometimes I struggle with coming in terms to my age” – I gloomily sighed!
Leisurely he looked up to face me with a strange warmth in his eyes.
The aura he radiated was making me reckless with my words, I realized!
“OK Lady Peter Pan, a couple of Poppins should be fine, I suppose?”
“Sure, why not? But not the purple one, I examined, scrunching my nose.”
We argued over the candy flavors for a little bit,
For those few seconds, we were giggling like small kids.
“Well, if something makes us smile, maybe it’s not that bad.”
I can’t really describe, but there was something so comforting in his voice when he said that!
I couldn’t help but fall for the words of this friendly stranger.
Sitting beside a girl in the empty ground,
unknowingly trying to change her.
We talked for hours about everything – the Black, the White & the Grey…
I can’t believe how easily I confessed,
the things out loud I never say!
Well I never really asked for his number or his last name,
And neither he did mine…
Still the stories we shared made it feel like,
We knew each other since the start of our times.
The stars were fading slowly, we know that time has flown,
As we heard the birds chirping, it was already break of the dawn.
We got up & silently walked around with the changing sky,
“Hey… don’t forget me!” he had said when we exchanged our Goodbyes.
This guy in that loose blue denim with a wide smile,
Turned around and waved at me from a distance…
They say the Knight in Shining Armor is different for every girl,
I know how mine looked like, in that instant.
And in the blink of an eye he was gone,
Leaving behind the same girl in her baggy sweatshirt all alone.
You might say what’s so special about talking to someone Beneath the Stars…
Let me tell you…
I’ve lived a piece of my long-lost fairy tale in these few hours!!!
Unsaid Words 