Every reflection showed a self he had abandoned.
By GoldenSpeech3 months ago in Chapters
He held storms gently until they calmed.
It glowed not because it remembered, but because it couldn’t.
He learned that shadows are just truths standing in the wrong light.
The bridge told her which way she already knew she’d go.
It carried him across waters made of his own thoughts.
She heard the melody only when she stopped listening.
The mirror broke, and he finally saw his real shape.
She drank silence and found it sweeter than every truth.
The sea told him every ending is just a wave returning home.
He wrote his fears on the night sky, and they shone brighter than his hopes.
Each morning the window showed a sky he had not yet earned.
