Cloud does not understand happiness.
Cloud is numb with sadness.
Cloud feels empty.
Cloud constantly chases after the sun.
Sun gives color to the cloud and makes her feel like sadness is easier to hold in.
From sunrise, till sunset.. Cloud constantly dreads the very moment where the sun sinks down beyond the horizon.
The very moment the only source of warmth in her life leaves.
Everything around the cloud turns dark. Cloud is almost lost in the darkness.
Moon, who had seen how cloud dreads when the sun is gone, tries to give hope to cloud in the darkest of times.
Although weak, its moonlight shines onto the clouds, giving it shades of cold colors. Another long, cold, lonely night for the cloud goes on.
When the sun rises back again, cloud tries to bear all these negative feelings inside her, as she fears to paint the sky in black.
She knows that her overbearing thoughts would even hide away and scare away the sun, which was the only thing that makes her feel less lonely.
Hence, she always tries hard to keep these lonely feelings locked inside her. All to keep the scarce hope of not feeling loneliness anymore.
Wind is jealous of the cloud.
She is unable to carry colors like cloud.
The Clouds are always painted and showered in different colors when the sun is there. Hence, the wind keeps disturbing the cloud and keeps trying to push the cloud away from the sun.
Cloud gets influenced very easily, and she gives into the negative feelings as she gets pushed away further and further away from the sun.
The feeling of not being needed in this world is just too overwhelming for her.
The feelings become heavier and heavier, until she couldn’t take in anymore.
The sky gets painted in shadows- the clouds hide away the sun- and rain pours from within the dark clouds.
The world becomes dark.
Not a single ray of light is able to reach the insides of this thunderstorm. Water droplets that are too heavy for her to carry are all released onto the ground.
It’s like nights without the sun all over again. The night full of cold, chilling loneliness.
It was all too overwhelming.
All the feelings she never got to confess and express. Cloud feels suffocated and all she could do is to cry her heart out to try and make this sadness go away.
The ever-numbing feeling of suffocation.
All of the sudden, she feels a warm scent, a hug from behind.
It is a very unfamiliar feeling that she had never experienced before.
It is unexplainable- like bubbles full of excitement bubbling inside of her. Even in this lonely world cloaked by shadows, it is more than enough to contain her sadness.
As they hug together, the sunlight begins to slip in between the edges of clouds. The raindrops get lesser and slower at that moment. The darkness clears up. The sounds of nature slowly come back in through the gaps in between the sound of rain. They both have a sudden realization as they witness all these changes around them.. From the very start to the end, from dusk till dawn, both of them were always together. Upon realizing the warmth of the hug, they begin to realize how beautiful it is when both of them are together. They felt tremendous joy. That realization made both sky and cloud no longer feel the emptiness that they had always felt before. They felt completed together.
THE END
Sky heart is filled with desires to make the cloud realize how important and unique cloud is.
He truly wishes Cloud to feel happiness. Not to feel the sadness or loneliness like this anymore.
Sky wants to make her realize the joy of life.
And Sky hugs Cloud into his arms. He is wide and big enough to hug her tightly.
The beautiful chirps of birds,
Upon understanding the emotions of sadness, Sky began to realize how happy he must have been this whole time. How he must have taken granted of all these things that he never realized before.
the scent of grass,
the sound of river flows.
The moment all of these little things gets replaced by the blinding sounds of rain, his heart is filled with longings for these little moments to come back.
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So, this is sadness...
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Sky feels so engulfed in the scene.
The water droplets have already formed puddles, to flood in a matter of minutes.
The sound of nature is all swallowed by the sound of the rain produced by Cloud. Every happiness gets blocked out because of this heavy rain pour.
This is the first time sky gets detached away from the sound of happiness.
He feels suffocated.
All of a sudden, the clouds get thicker.
Darker.
Even the brightest sun gets rejected by the large groups of clouds.
Lightings, loud bursts, and just moments after, huge drops of water droplets fell onto the ground. The loud noises block away every single light and sound in the whole world.
All Sky was able to hear was his heartbeat.
Sky still doesn’t understand sadness.
For the first time in forever, he is overwhelmed with desires to know more about this emotion. He desires to understand Cloud. She is the reason why skies are so pretty and alluring, that he could not understand why it is sad.
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It is called sadness.
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According to the moon, it is a kind of emotion that suddenly washes you over and engulfs you in- making you out of breath.
He realizes that the cloud looks the prettiest when the sun is present. Colors of orange, magenta, pink‌
But everytime after the sun is gone, the cloud gets left alone in the shadows of the world. One can barely see the outlines of the cloud in the darkness.
He notices that sometimes even in the brightest light emitted by the sun, cloud still gets darker in color- like it was overwhelmed with something.
It is hard for sky to understand that ‘something’.
Sky is always behind the scenes.
He witnesses the flow of time, the rise and dawn of the sun, the endless horizons beyond the ocean and mountains- and of course, cloud as well.
He does not have anything else to do since he doesn’t really have any desires. So, he starts to take notice of the lonely cloud.
Sky is numb with happiness. Sky feels empty. He doesn’t understand how valuable happiness is.
Sky does not understand sadness.