Let’s crush the fallen leaves beneath our feet, as we walk barefoot in the musical autumn evenings.

Let’s engrave our names in the barks of old trees and imprint our existence for eternity. Let’s watch the birds as they carry our love to distant lands with their songs. Let’s roll in wet grass till we get too tired to move. Let’s whirl on the rooftop, inhaling the intoxicating scent of the misty air. Let’s dance to the beat of what life has to unfold.

Let’s kiss each other for hours, drinking the nectar from each other’s soul. Let’s have the most meaningful and fulfilling conversations in silence. Let’s stay awake all night long watching the other sleep, curled up, innocent and vulnerable like a new born child. Let’s plunge our heads in the running streams and drink our fill of the nature’s wine.

Let’s sleep on top of each other and feel two hearts beating in resonance as the time works its way to glorious mornings. Let’s share a cup of coffee at two in the morning and steal glances at each other. Let’s sit by the window and watch the rain, as we share our dreams and fears and pain. Let’s engulf in madness, inhaling the sweet petrichor as the rain drops kiss the earth beneath us.

Let’s explore busy streets in strange cities on sunny afternoons and come back home, so empty and so full, both at the same time. Let’s sit on the couch and watch our favorite movies together and know each other as we laugh and cry while living those movies. Let’s talk to each other for hours, words never being enough to manifest what’s in our hearts. Let’s splash a thousand colors on the canvas of our lives and then sit back and admire the art we have created together.

Let’s hold each other for 20 minutes straight, in the most comforting silence that has ever existed. Let’s rock each other to sleep on weary nights when life becomes too much to handle. Let’s pick up fallen flowers and bring them home for each other, to remind us of the ever-existent hope and beauty. Let’s get lost in each other’s fragrance and worship each other every moment of togetherness. Let’s dive headfirst into the ocean that life is and drown in the depths of the ecstasy that we are.

Let’s tickle each other and battle with pillows, until we start laughing at ourselves, making our stomachs hurt. Let’s order grand pizzas and skip laundry and watch TV till four in the morning. Let’s yell and get mad at each other, and spend a day or two without talking. Let’s apologize for our foolishness and kiss in the rain to make up for it. Let’s misunderstand each other, cry ourselves to sleep and then talk it out the next day—only to know something totally new about each other, like discovering a new square in the city we have lived in for the most part of our lives.

Let’s laugh until tears start rolling down our cheeks and cry till we laugh at the absurdity of life. Let’s hold hands and stare at the tranquil moon at night as the moonlight washes our wounds clean. Let’s splash water on each other and dance in the shower. Let’s whisper secrets into each other’s soul and keep them sealed in our hearts. Let’s blend your yellow and my red to form infinite shades of orange, as soothing as sunset and as fiery as fire.

Let’s heal each other of our invisible wounds by pouring love in the crevices of our souls. Let’s stay under blankets and skip work as we explore each other all day long. Let’s merge into one. Let’s run away to places unknown where there is no beginning and no end and witness the unfathomable truth. Let’s pick up one tune at a time and add it to the beautiful and raw music that life is. Let’s make love, not on Saturday nights, but in each and every moment that we breathe together.

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Author: Anahita Batra

Editor: Yoli Ramazzina

Photo: Unsplash/Ezra Jeffrey