She didn't believe in love at first sight, she said. It was all a well-conceptualized myth to lead people into superficial happiness, she said. Today's is a world balanced so precariously that its harmony can be shattered by a whisper!! So how can one glance hold the thread of two hearts for too long? Until one day while taking a stroll in the neighborhood she spotted a cherry blossom tree nothing like she has seen before! Cherry blossoms were as much an inspiration for beautiful verse as they were a reminder of life's fickleness, she thought. One moment they breathed pink, the next they faded. But it had a pull she found hard to resist. She walked closer and closer to it and stood silently beneath it. She could sense the energy packed around her, she could smell them, too, a subtle essence of bubblegum and lollipops, the sweetness deepened by the scent of the slowly warming earth below them. As she soaked in every bit of that fleeting moment, she saw a face as brightly lit as hers through the branches, sitting under the tree with a book in her hand, lost between the pages. She looked up at her and their eyes met and in that brief moment may be...may be love did happen!
