"You will find so much better", they say. That the fates have not allowed you to be with that soul, your paths have just crossed but not be wholly intertwine. He had come to your life and left, there must be a sole reason even if you do not know it yet. You are destined for someone greater, someone whose veins sing for your being and for your blood only. All celestial beings he came to knew before would soon be forgotten for you and only you would be his sun and moon. The thought is mesmerizing, unearthly even. To good to be true, but that is what the elders and the wise have promised you. And yet, amidst the promise of destiny and the thought that he was not made for you— you long for him still.

on that night where the sinew
that holds us has tethered,
i swore that you’ll always have a part of me.
no matter what foreign soil you wander,
no matter whom stranger’s mouth you tasted,
no matter whose warmth your fingertips touched—
you’ll always carry a fragment of my soul.

for me,
you will always be the calm shore
amidst the raging waves
in a thunderstorm sea.

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remember me not by name
but in memory

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the greatest story ever told
are those stories your afraid to tell