May Time Treat Us All Kindly

You are like a dazzling light, illuminating my entire world and warming my blood until it seems to boil. But no matter how hard I try to rise on tiptoe and look up, I cannot see where you began. No matter how hard I run, chase, and search, I cannot find your end. Only later did I learn that I was not the only one you illuminated, nor the only one you warmed. It turned out I had been imagining it all.

Our paths crossed, and I fell in love at first sight. Too proud to let go, too afraid of rejection, I pretended to treat everyone equally. Every time I gave you a piece of my love, I had to make counterfeit copies to scatter among the others. You are at the center of it all. Why don't you understand?

"Mr. Tang, I found... one of your secrets."

"Miss Meng, I also found... one of your secrets."

"You're the one who's a miss," someone retorted, apparently having another brain glitch.