Little Butterfly

"Do you remember the story about the butterfly?"
How it soared way up into the eastern sky
and the wind took its delicate wings across the ocean;
a wish fulfilled to be free and alive on the other side,
away from this, on the other side
of these every-changing tides.

"Do you remember the story about the butterfly?
I always thought I could go anywhere alone.
But since I met you I've realized I'm weak.
I can't fly all by myself.
I can't go anywhere without you anymore."

She said it, Hinako Takanaga,
I read it in a cute manga
And fell in love with the concept
that we could be butterflies, you and I,
and we could fly together and defy everything
and care about nothing but each other at the same time.

The season is summer, my dear,
as Takanaga said...when the young butterflies
are just beginning to flutter through the air.
The season is summer, my dear,
when we break from the shell and flutter
through the lazy days like nothing could stop us....
anyway...the season is summer and we're together.
So, I can fly.

Be my little butterfly, won't you?
Because I'm afraid to fly on my own...
Especially now, when I am at home.

L_VE

Listen t_ me
_h, h_w I wish it c_uld be
Very plain t_ see
Everything and m_re
L_ve.

Something's missing, though,
something deep in my soul,
somehow I have to find a way to let go,
somehow
I just have to...
...know...
Oh.
O.

I just realized what's missing
The realization of how the constalations aligned
just for us, just for the two of us
for this one summer together
under the stars, wrapped in arms
as we chase away tomorrow for one more day
and hope and pray that these feelings stay
close together and forever and linger long after
I'm 1000 miles away from here and there and you...
and I realized that something's budding in my soul
Something sudden, somethings suddenly so new.
I think...I hope...I wish...I'm starting to L_VE you.
O.

lOve.
I forgot how it felt this way
how you take my breath away
When I just want you to stay
and I just hope and pray
that somehow, someday
We'll be together this way...
O.

O is the sudden realization I've missed this
And I could have missed you
And I suddenly found you
and everything is okay...for now.


Maybe this is love,
But who knows?

Oh...
L
O
V
E.
Oh...I get it now?

New Hope

He said it in the sweetest way:
"I know we only have three months,
but let's make the most out of the time we have."
Here's to the memories we'll make, my dear.

Your beacon of hope shines out of the void
I had made for myself for this last cold summer
You give me new hope in the darkness
That bright days are still to come
and there are memories still to be had
and there is life still to be lived
here in this little place I call home.

I find myself pulled
in all directions now
Waiting for him
Waiting for her
Hoping for the best
and stopping the stir
I find myself pushed
in every possible way
Going to there
Leaving from here
Hoping for something to last
and dreading the whir
of those voices
and faces
and places
and times
1000 miles away
but oh so close to time.

But I pause from all that
for these brief summer months
Because you give me hope
You give me hope for today
for tomorrow
for every day after
That we can be together
And, for at least the summer,
Stay just that way.

A new hope for love
a new hope for life
a new hope for us
to watch days go by.

Here we are,
those sweet days of summer.

You said it in the sweetest way:
"I know we only have three months,
but let's make the most out of the time we have
Live for today, dream not of tomorrow,
relish in our joy, and escape into our bliss.
We've got a summer, let's make the most of it."
Here's to the hope you gave me,
Here's to the memories you made me,
Here's to us, my dear, here's to my final summer here.