a year ago today,
a small thing happened
a name appeared,
a heart said yes
before the mind could think.
I did not know then
what I was beginning.
I did not know
I was stepping into something
that would matter this much.
we were just two strangers
on a screen.
and then we weren't.
how fast it all became real.
how fast real became everything.
how fast everything
became silence.
I thought today would be different.
I thought today
we would look at each other and say:
a year. can you believe it?
a whole year.
instead I am counting alone.
marking something
that only I remember now.
or maybe he remembers too,
and says nothing.
that somehow hurts more.
time moved so quickly
to bring us together.
then so quickly
to take it all apart.
and I am still standing
at the beginning of it,
wondering how a year passed
and I am somehow
more lost now
than I was before I knew him.
Happy anniversary
to what almost was.
to what I thought we'd be.
to my 6 May:
a day that still
means something
to at least one of us.
May 7
May 7, 2026 at 11:39 AM UTC
a year ago today,
a small thing happened
a name appeared,
a heart said yes
before the mind could think.
I did not know then
what I was beginning.
I did not know
I was stepping into something
that would matter this much.
we were just two strangers
on a screen.
and then we weren't.
how fast it all became real.
how fast real became everything.
how fast everything
became silence.
I thought today would be different.
I thought today
we would look at each other and say:
a year. can you believe it?
a whole year.
instead I am counting alone.
marking something
that only I remember now.
or maybe he remembers too,
and says nothing.
that somehow hurts more.
time moved so quickly
to bring us together.
then so quickly
to take it all apart.
and I am still standing
at the beginning of it,
wondering how a year passed
and I am somehow
more lost now
than I was before I knew him.
Happy anniversary
to what almost was.
to what I thought we'd be.
to my 6 May:
a day that still
means something
to at least one of us.
