Halfway

Halfway by Arcee Santiago

It was thus engraved in stones of marble

In a similar way as stars are clustered in twilight hours

That we are to scale at some point to meet up, or even to stumble

For us to say what’s yours is mine, and what’s mine is now yours

It is neither being about you nor being about me alone to make this able

But is all about Us now, without strings attaching and without restraining bars

Sometime when the dusk and the daybreak is at sight

That precise moment when darkness still embraces the dawn

You chanced upon me and asked for a ‘light’

In that special place where I am to leave and you are to sojourn

Being neither friends nor strangers then, but promising lovers we might

Be meant to level upon anything to meet halfway, all devoid of scorn

Two Seasons proved it so right

We are both each other’s disease and cure

A best friend and an enemy on each count of fight

Through the span of madness and appeal to sanity we are sure

To seize vengeance through stealth and without a fright

And settle differences owing to hearts with love so pure

down the cross-roads

Of love and hate, of joys and sorrows

From the ecstasy of fulfillment of one’s passion, to the agony in the death of one’s dreams

From the nightmares of hell then back to heaven’s bliss

Take steps though pace unhurried, spirit is unwavering

See you there, to the place partially reached by us both

Nevertheless completed in compromise

In the most faultless thing done unfinished

We’ll meet there on our so-called halfway’s ground.

A poem for me by Arcee...

Wish you never sailed away...

One day your journey would come to a better shore..

but if the winds of faith blows your sail back to my shore

you would find the same old sand and water of before..

-GPG-