29th of July. Weather is clear.
One adult asked me.
“What is your dream?”
As if my dreams explained who I am...
When I said I had no dream,
the look on the adult’s face was
like to the child with no name.
The look was familiar to me.
Though studying wasn’t
much of my taste, I tried my best.
Parents were fond of joy,
when I brought good grades to them.
Walking on the same
path at the same time,
I continued my life
with no expression.
Many books tell me, look at the stars
in the night sky and become
the person who shines bright
like those stars. But, the stars that
I looked up in the sky did not shine at all.
So, I continue to walk,
looking down on the floor.
Suddenly, a strange thing
happened to me. As I was walking,
a child came up to me and
started talking to me. “
There is nothing on the floor to look at,
raise your head up.”
This child was a bit weird.
The child looked at me
with a bright smile and had
a pure glow from its face but,
it seems like this child had
the same expression on its eyes as me.
From that moment,
we started to hang out a few times.
Turning up the music and
dancing together was the most
exciting part of our hangouts.
For the first time, I actually felt alive.
Hearts pounding like it is about
to burst out and this tingling
feelings coming up from
my fingertips started to take over me.
Was there a moment
when I wanted something this bad?
One by one, more children
started to say my name.
The path that I only walked
with one another person became
a path to many. Slowly,
the word ‘I’ became ‘ours.’
Wandering around with
this unknown fever,
as we looked above our heads,
stars seem to shine bright. Today.
