SUNRISE AND SUNSET

 I guess what they say is true: Everything Comes to an End.

We've often been told that love comes slow and goes so fast,

Often heard of how bad it hurts, 

Capable of leaving anyone empty and broken,

In fact, experienced how off-putting it can get when it's not being jolly, and sweet.

Jolly and Sweet,

Feels like just yesterday when our days were like that.

Good days, they were.

Those days when we'd lay in each other’s arms, talking till one of us dozed off.

I remember how you’d always be the first one to fall asleep, and I'd tease you about it in the morning.

Those days when it felt like there were no people in the world, besides us,

Those days when our love made sense,

Those days when we were worth fighting for.

Those days.

I'll forever miss them, however fleeting they were.

I'll miss how you called me yours

I'll miss how to the world, you and I were most perfect for each other.

Now, those happy times are figments of our memories.

We're raising voices and clenching fists, now 

Apportioning blames and slamming doors.

My voice irritates you, now; when at first, you thought it the most angelic tune you ever heard

All of a sudden, my sipping is 'too loud',

My laughter is 'almost-maniacal',

My wardrobe is too 'plain'

And my breath on your skin feels 'chesty'.

No one prepared us for this.

We're too weary to fight for any remnant affection there may be.

It's hard to accept that maybe this, it wasn't right.

But it's even harder to pretend that it's okay.

It was good while it lasted.

But for everything that happens at sunrise, there must come a sunset to bring it to an end.

It hurts our own sunset had to come this fast, 

But it has, and we should accept.

Be happy, in whatever phase of love you find yourself, after me.

I want that much for you.

And when you find someone who doesn't sip as loud, who doesn't laugh as maniacal, whose wardrobe is more colourful and whose breath feels less chesty, 

I hope you tell her you once loved someone who was everything she is not.

I hope you tell her once upon a time, I made you happy.

That once upon a time, you never wanted our sun to set.

Mz. Sefa❤️