it happened when i needed it to

so, i'm back and i don't know when i'll see him again. he took me to the shore where he spent his childhood. we played carnival games and rode on a ferris wheel, ate pizza and drank orangeade. at night, right before we left, we stood by the ocean one last time and looked at the hopelessly long coastline, the silhouettes of people still in the water, the silky black waves turning a foamy white and then turning back. he said, let's be endless and i thought, could not help thinking, so this is what it's like to be young and in love, to want something and to think that maybe it is not impossible.