It's All in the Planets

by Preeti Shenoy

I smile. Then a thought strikes me. When you feel happy listening to details of what that person ate, and how they did not throw up, then you know it is love.

No road is too hard, no path too long and nothing is too much trouble when you are in love.

You wake up with thoughts of them. You go to bed with thoughts of them. And throughout the day, you are reminded of them in a million little ways.

There is no waking moment that goes by without you on my mind. And if I could control my dreams when I sleep, I would dream only of you. I stare at pictures of you, memorizing every detail, every curve, every line on your face. I want to soak you in my eyes, keep you there. I could look at your picture for hours, and still keep staring endlessly. I lose myself in you. And I find myself in you. If happiness could be measured in electric current, the joy I feel when I hear your voice over the phone, or see you, would easily cross a million watts.

There is no day and night any more. There are only moments that painfully tick by till I can connect with you again. Everything else has ceased to matter.