the outer world

Would it surprise you to know I came back here again?

Back then,
we were too busy discovering all the strange, beautiful things in town.
We were curious about the world beyond the slope—
but too tired to walk that far.

I was preoccupied with delivering that letter.
You watched me fuss over it, pretending not to understand.

But inside that envelope, a whole world was hidden—
the sea we never saw.

Now, I finally made it there.

But the photo we took to remember
is gone.