velvet coral
So she raced toward the darkness,
arms wide to catch the fall,
hoping death would unite them
before life could tear them apart.
But life, cruel and cunning,
let him linger
while she slipped too far.
He awoke to a silence louder than screams,
her absence sinking into his bones
like winter that would never end.
Every breath was a wound,
every heartbeat a betrayal—
a world still turning without her footsteps
He searched for her in shadows,
in dreams that shattered on waking,
in echoes that mocked him with her name.
And when hope rotted into ache
he did not run from life—
he reached toward her,
choosing the fall she once chose
for the same love that refused to die.
And there they stood,
in a place where the moon spoke of no end,
Together again
Where destiny's hands had no power.
Two souls,
One universe rewritten by love
rapid tapir
obsidian cypress
green flint
torpid wraith
onyx wedge
stone drift
cosmic rover
mighty vapor
grave blaze
rich olive
tribal latch
sand ocean
primal otter
copper lance