Serendipity
for my little angel who just turned 22 this year
Silky bread in a floral bed
Cookies and chocolate milk
Being highly active, more energized than ever
I was only three, and she was still a baby
We escaped reality, floating on cloud nine,
laughing over tickles and teasing over small kisses
Then I told her a few happy tales
about this rabbit family as her bedtime stories
We were little fools who didn’t know yet how the real world works
All we know is we were alive, and we were happy anyway
We were happy anyway
Grew a bit older, the sun stopped peeking through our dusty curtain
All my simple ideations about home were stolen and torn
And she wandered on her own amidst the chaotic rhythm life had stained
We dreamt big about rainbows and unicorns,
yet got thrown into a pit full of fire arrows and monsters with horns
Adopted by turbulent loneliness,
darkness chugged down our very last drop of ingrained faith
We both thought we were alone
and nobody knew how scared we were
All we know is we were alive, but we got lost anyway
We got lost anyway
Until time helped reunite our paths;
dissolved memories of the past,
the special bond of sisterhood,
and we survived through it all
Tears blended with laughter, warm hugs on coldest nights,
sometimes heated arguments accompanied by profound silence,
also, spicy foods, sweet treats, and random jokes
about how we should be comedians instead
We both are clueless about how different yet very similar we are
Dancing through the roaring waves,
singing our hearts out during the raging storm
living no longer seems like an impossible task
For we both are grown-ups now,
and we still don’t know how to tame the wildness of this world,
but facing it together makes us a little tougher
Since all we know is life might get even crazier
and will bring us down sometimes,
but we are alive, and we love each other anyway
We love each other anyway
