How do you miss someone?
written by: Jasmin Labatete
How do you miss someone?
Do you miss their faces —
The color of their eyes?
Or how their lips twirl a little to show a smile?
Do you yearn for their voice —
The crack, the loudness, and even the hum?
And how about their touch?
Does your skin crave the warmth from their embrace?
Does it bounce when you try to remember the texture of their palm?
But how do you miss someone you haven’t seen?
How do you ache for a voice you’ve never heard?
And how do you long for a touch you’ve never felt?
I have two brothers in heaven — a kuya and a bunso.
Never seen, never heard, but deeply felt.
One lived for two months, yet sickness and poverty took his life.
One never took a breath, he came and went before his first cry.
A movie once said that all souls in heaven are seven years old.
It comforts me to think they grow up there, when the world below never let them.
So at times, I whisper for them to visit me in my dreams.
So we can play, dance, and let our lungs scream.
But they never came.
Or perhaps they did…
And I just didn’t recognize them.
How do you miss someone?
Do you long for their touch, voice, and face?
But what if none exists?
Then I suppose I miss the possibility of them being here.
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