we're made of the gentle touch of mother's fingers, who braided our hair before going to kindergarten.
we're made of the sleepy mumbling of father, who fell asleep on the floor next to our crib when we had nightmares.
we're made of pancakes with jam prepared especially for us by grandma early in the morning. and we're made of grandpa's quick-witted tasks, which always ended in fooling around.
we're made of shared games and conversations at night with sister and the first concessions for a little brother.
it's in the eyes of our first school friend who teaches us how to do a flip on a horizontal bar.
it's on a trip late at night to pick up a stray dog we fell in love with from one blurred photo in the newspaper.
it's in the first interest that will become our full-fledged hobby.
it's in every book we reread under the light of the desk lamp and in every cartoon we couldn't take our eyes off.
it's in our first crush we don't know what to do with.
it's in the secrets that we can't share and in the thoughts that we try to find explanations for everywhere.
it's in romantic sympathy, and friendly, and related, and almost completely unfamiliar.
sometimes it means that we are also made up of pain and anxiety, loss and sorrow. after all, our attachment is so strong that we simply drown in the dark with a broken thread.
but this is also love. love breaks us down and brings us back to life.
love is a flame in our chest.
love is the waves on our skin.
love is a sprout that grows through our ribs and we must give it a little light, time and warmth of our palms.
i don't know what will happen to our world in the future,
but as long as we are made of love,
as long as we create out of love,
as long as we speak, and do, and listen, and stay, and laugh, and share, and sacrifice, and cry, and forgive, and believe — out of love,
we have something significant to start tomorrow for.