once said
two people
three words

i

love

you

24

On the 24th day of the year
He made it happen
he asks, she answers

one week
five days
eleven hours
forty-nine minutes
fifty-four seconds
since i last saw you
for 1,079,394 times
i thought of you.

my heart was a unit circle,
and you were its origin,
you were its center.

i listened to music
and you were the beautiful songs,
the harmony was in your face,
the melody was in your grace.

i felt nature hug me
and you were her arms.

it was dark nights,
but you were a full moon,
slowly waning to a smile
that kept my dark nights bright.

all through that time
you were hear
near me --
you were oxygen,
you made me breathe.
in me --
you became my heart,
you gave me life.

you were you
and i was i.
oh how i sigh
now you aren't mine.
that the greatest thing in my mind
is only the thought of
you
only the thought of you.
but since the last time i saw you,
i did not love having only the thought of you.
i loved having only you.
i loved only you
and i still do
and i forever will do.
i love you.

SELF REVIEW

That short poem to the upper left was inspired by... the same person who inspired "24." (My first girl actually.) If you were a close friend, you will know that 24 is an anniversary. And if it isn't yet obvious, the 24th day of the year is January 24. So that makes it... duh.

I noticed this just now - but the 3 poems in this page all have a similarity. NUMBERS. The author playfully uses numbers to illustrate perhaps the magnitude of things. Like how long did he wait, when did this thing happen & yeah, that it takes 1-2-3.

Furthermore, "expression" is just one of those "ways" you can add to the ever-growing lists of "1 million ways to say i love you." It actually just makes people realize the numericality of I love you which also comes as 1-4-3 (denoting the number of letters in each word), etc.

In "Since I last saw you," algebra even comes in with the "unit circle", and then music & nature - three interests of the author perhaps. And then the old clichés on dark nights and about making it bright. All to add to the effect that the person who's the object ("You") of this poem is the center of all the author's world, the all too important (and probably the only) person in his world. and then the anti-climactic ending. This poem was inspired by a second-year-college crush whom I didn't have too much chance to get to be with actually.