Merlin, my bestfriend from elementary is finally back in Manila after spending time working in Laguna and Bacolod City. We haven't changed a bit. We still like the same stuff, play the same music and we still both suck at math (although we have different tastes when it comes to women!). It was a nice manic Monday yesterday because I was able hang out with him even after a toxic day at work.

Conversation went to our friend Harbie's wedding. We were both amazed that two people, after going through a decade of being mostly apart can still end up together. For me, Harbie and her now husband Alfredo are my confirmation that true love does exist. I'd never have survived an almost decade-long long distance relationship.

When you miss someone so bad, the days go by either too fast or too slow. You'd basically want to skip the hours, the days, the months, the years and land just on the day you and the one you love would meet again. I wrote this one when I was feeling just like that.

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Really You and Me


If I could make the days go by faster
with me just looking by, watching as the sky change its color
Just letting time fly from night to day
So I won't have to take the pain of missing you with me


I wish I could speed up the days
That there will be no more time for misunderstandings and doubts...
All we'll remember was that the last thing we said to each other
was 'I'm not leaving you behind'
Then things may go all well
And finally we'll both see
that it was really, you and me


If only I could watch the clock make a fast 24-hours,
or count the days by the minute
So I won't have to go through all the days we won't be together
Then there'll be no room for tears but just the feel of it,
There'll be no room for missing each other but just the thought of it...


Then, maybe, we'll finally see
that it was, after all, really you and me.


--
lei