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The Cabin

Days passed without measure. I stopped counting them. The noise in my head did not leave at once. It fought. It circled back. It…

Exile is not being sent away, it is being forced to live where meaning still exists but permission does not. You feel it in…

When you were with me, you spoke more honestly, laughed more freely, as if you knew even then it wouldn’t last forever, loved more…

I have loved with the gravity of planets clung to bodies as if they were lifeboats sailing toward the infinite hush

Now the mirror shows a stranger I recognize. The same eyes, but deeper. The same hands, but steadier.

Another sunrise. Another chance to get it right. And I will. Because the fire’s back – quiet, controlled, mine.

My eyes, open to light, to the glisten of dew on blades of grass, to the dance of shadows across the ground, as if…

Be grateful. For the breath that fills your lungs, for the silence that cradles your thoughts, for the gift of this moment – unpaid,…

This love of ours is the weight of every lifetime the children we bore, the joys we shared, the dreams that filled our hearts.…