She taught him how to love her without holding her ๐
She told him her name was Breeze. He never saw her face. He never saw her body. But she was there. He knew this because he could feel cool sensations on his skin whenever she was around. ๐
Sometimes she loved touching his hair and making it messy.
"Hey, I just combed my hair. Can you flow gently?" ๐
She did the complete opposite.
The breeze turned into a strong wind. His bicycle, leaning against the wall, fell to the ground.
He sat up from the bench and started talking to the air.
"Seriously, you need to chill out."
Then the wind turned into freezing cold air, and he began to shiver. ๐ฅถ
He ran inside the house and closed the door behind him.
He was safe now. He was alone. She was not here.
He went to his room and sat cross-legged on the floor. He closed his eyes.
Because she was air, she was everywhere. He inhaled her. Then he realized he had inhaled her. A playful idea came to his mind. He thought he could trap her in his body. So he didn't exhale.
But after a few seconds, he had to release her. He didn't want to inhale her again, so he didn't inhale. But after a couple of seconds, he had to inhale her.
She was literally his breath. She would be with him until his last breath. So she started teaching him how to get along with her. She taught him how to love her without holding her. She taught him how to let go of her, trusting that she would come back. ๐
He surrendered to her. She came whenever she came. She went whenever she went. But she always returned because without her, he could not breathe. ๐
When he inhaled, she entered his body. She stayed for a couple of seconds. Then, when he exhaled, she left his body and flowed back into the universe. Then she returned again when he inhaled.
She never left him alone. But there was a time when she did leave him alone..a pause between each inhale and exhale.
The thing was, he couldn't keep her. He couldn't touch her. He couldn't see her. She came. She never stayed for more than a couple of seconds. Then she went. But she was never gone for more than a couple of seconds. She always returned.
He didn't know where she came from. He didn't know where she went. She told him that her home was the pause between her arrival and departure as breath.
And he asked where her home was.
She said to him that he was the "pause" between arrival and departure.
So he was her Home.
She came from him and went out into the world, and then returned back to him. ๐๐ชฝ๐