Flipping Destiny

By Carissa Tanuwijaya and Evangeline Gabriella

December 17, 2024

Flipping Destiny

“One day, like a twist of fate,”

My gaze caught yours

as if I was meant to meet you.

You, as divine and gallant as rose petals.

On a sunlit morning, 

I heard you were bound with another man, 

the said-to-be Romeo to your Juliet.

The sky turned melancholic, my heart dampened. 

A tragedy begins to be foreseeable.

“No, it is not a tragedy.” 

I will decide our genre.

“I will change everything tonight.”

“Forget the Romeo,”

If only I could just say that to you.

“Be with me.” 

We will live on cloud nine.

“Kill the bastard old Romeo.”

Let’s flip our destiny.

Find a world with me,

“your own new, purer Romeo.”

“We can be runaways.”

Stroll on the seaside.

Under the moonlight, just the two of us.

“Sadness fades away.”

“I just need you, 

the ending we'll write is different.”

“Now let's leave this place, 

you and I will write a new story.”

Inspired by: Kill the Romeo by ZEROBASEONE