There, Stood One Lonesome Tree

        There on a hill, stood a one lonesome tree, miles parted from the distant asphalt street. It stood still showing its strength as the breeze blew its branches from left to right, stripped its leaves, leaving a sound of whisper. A whisper of silent words, silent confusion, that were unable to be told. The breeze turned to a cold chilling afternoon wind, which stroked its roots with thousands of needles, leaving it frozen to the unbearable cold winter night.

       There, beside that lonesome tree, I stood in disbelief, seeing bellow the hill, the two of them, running, holding hands, like there was nothing else in the midst of this cruel world. He ran ahead of her, toward the middle of the pasture. Then turned around, opened his arms wide, wanting to have her in his arms. She too ran joyously toward him, with full of emotions that revealed and exposed her true side that she had never shown me before. She let him know that he was everything to her, as she plunged her body in his arms.

       Stood below the hill, they were filled with unmeasured love, ignoring the chilled wind that whispered by. My eyes could not bear seeing the two exchanged saliva under a crescent moon that is covered by the knifes-shaped clouds, hiding the moons luminescent in that cold night. I stood fully shattered, knowing where he and she stood, was once the time when she closed her eyes as I caressed her hair, and kissed her soft lips for the first time. Yes, the same grass, the same ground where she stood, recalled the first time that I uttered the three words… “I love you.”

       That February night, on the hill where I stood, the cold wind felt as if it squeezed every inch of my bone, shattering my mind and soul to small particles of nothingness. That same chilling wind gusts its thousand needles, raid my heart, and tore it into million pieces. As I remained still with no strength left on my hands, I dropped the rose on my right and the box of chocolate on my left hand, letting them plummet to the silent ground. On that same box of chocolate, attached a small valentine card that was written straight from my heart saying, “Even until death do us part, you will forever be my one and only valentine. I will love you… Always.”

       That few minutes of flashback felt and seemed like it was just yesterday. Felt like yesterday that my first love left me on that cold dark night. She left my heart and my soul. She tore my heart, leaving scars of unforgotten memories of the time when she and I spent swapping food from our plate, the time of she and I cuddled under the movie screen, and the time when we gave a quick kiss behind her respected father. Those moments of her and I are scarcely hidden in my mind, she left me like the lonesome tree in the dark cold night.

Written by, Assdhy Frengky Lolowang, based on a poem entitled Life Can End In An Instance, which was also written by Assdhy F. Lolowang. : )