this kiss.

there are, it seems, a lot of long-term couples breaking up at the moment.
it started almost a year ago with one couple, one of my dearest friends and his girlfriend. when I had asked him, a year prior to the break-up, about them getting married, he answered "after we finished our studies". both my best friend and me said "but you...like, always were together". then it was long-term couple after long-term couple, we didn't feel much of a sting with most of them. we brushed it off our shoulders. no near and dear friends. it just felt weird. like a phase. we hoped for nothing worse.

then it was those two. we both love both of them, I think, in our own way. they are close to us, both as separate people and as a couple. then today I got the phone call. one of those dreaded conversations. all I could say was "I want them to be back together again". it was seeing his eyes. and the talking, or not-talking. about things that actually did happen.

I remember the two kisses, two days ago. we met in the bus back home from university. something felt off for me, then, too. but I didn't mind. when we waited for the traffic light to turn green again, in the middle of the road, in the rain, they kissed. then she told me a story about a girl she wanted to kiss on the cheek who then turned and hit her head instead. I said to her, you're too short, I would just hit you with my shoulder. she kissed my shoulder, in the rain. I want it back. her kiss on him and her kiss on my shoulder, and even him in my arms, hugging. I want them.

maybe, now in our early twenties, none of us can really grasp the concept of a long-term relationship. like the old fight between the immovable object and the unstoppable forth, to which there is no solution, just "it's a trick question, is the answer".

still,
the immovable object of our hopes
and the unstoppable force of our lives.

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