alive
To be held by loving arms;
to be mentioned in whispers;
to be desired at night;
to be remembered by day;
to be compared to heaven;
to be regarded as light.
To be adored and be loved
is to be truly alive.
Tin Soldier
It's 2002. She makes a joke at my expense. I feel happy. I feel wanted . I feel needed . For once, I do not feel like an outlier, like a footnote on my family's history. My friends look at me expecting a reaction, but I can only manage to glance in her direction trying to steal a flash from those determined eyes I have come to admire so much. I get nothing. I think she is as nervous as I am, but she does not show it. It's 2023. I am sitting alone in a small flat trying to recall the elusive feeling of 21 long years prior and, to my surprise and grand delight, it is still here . It's 2002. The war that ravages the country feels closer to the cities now, and I am a member of the reserve army. There is a remote chance that I will be called upon to join the military. Fear runs through the community, and one day I find a letter in my grey backpack. It's from her. She has always been a better writer than I can ever hope to be, but this time I can feel her tremulous h...
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