Ever since the first day I sat beside you, and we spoke like the world had paused, I’ve been looking for you in every room even the ones I know you’ll never walk into. Since the first night we shared a bed, sleep hasn’t belonged to me the same way. My body doesn’t rest without…

If I lived only in my mind, I’d be twenty years ahead of today, walking down roads that have not yet been built, climbing hills that burn beneath my hands and feet, chasing dreams I cannot yet see. I’d search for smoother paths, asking God to make my way lighter, not realizing the weight of…

I wanted to be an architect, so I chose you. Your hands became my plans, your voice was the place I wanted to come home to. So I started building.  I built passionately, even when I was tired. Even when the walls started to lean. Seasons changed. And somehow, I was holding a roof with…

I don’t hate music. But when the beat begins playing it reminds me of when my heart followed a rhythm that was only meant for you. And when the artist sings, my body reacts. Goosebumps rise on my skin, the same way they did under your touch. Music pulls my emotions forward, even the ones…

The forest has a way to teach its own kind to survive  to desperately protect the most raw parts of themselves to show teeth not from anger but from trauma that has been cut and engraved into unhealed scars on their skin.  There was a presence in the underbrush.  I could see him move coated…