New Horizons

I never thought of a day  When you'd be so far away  I thought we connected  So foolishly, I expected  For you to be there  Waiting for me No new notifications did I see So I went along with it, silly me But cuz I thought we'd connected  And as I so foolishly expected I enquired no more  For you were still here, I was sure But then came in Michael  And broke this hopeless cycle For you weren't here, no you were TAKEN  And that's left me all shaken  My router was stolen.

Fill me with your words and dreams Tell me the secrets you want to scream Write in me about what you'd like to  know Draw me those places you'd want to go Let's traverse your mind, you and I Pen those scary thoughts; as I bleed and you cry Turn the page and forget them still Those memories you've buried under the mill Of your head where such thoughts are ground Into mere ink on paper browned Come later and see the story unfold A great story indeed, this story untold

Earlier this year I found my YouTube feed filled with songs of a peculiar sounding movie titled "Call me by your name". Wondering why on earth I'd ever do that, I gave the song a try. It would take me just half a minute to realize that this song, this particular song, I would cherish as a favorite forever. And hence began the fangirling. I watched all the trailers. I read the Wikipedia article. I watched interviews of the author. I stalked Armie Hammer on Instagram. I told everyone I met about the book, the movie and especially, the songs. And of course, I listened to "Mystery of love" on repeat till my ears throbbed in pain and my head was filled with confabulations of warm sunny days and sepia-tinted skies. My imagination of the summers of northern Italy was  prefaced by the opening scenes of the movie, the characters complementing the green of the orchard, basking in the white light of the yellow sun, in their billowy pastel colored clothes. It reminded me o