"Every story begins with a spark, a trembling hand, a word that dares to bloom. I wrote you in the margins of my life, not knowing that the love we share would both hurt and mend us."
Chapter I: When the Day Met the Night.
Knowing how horribly our story will end, I will never again write poetry for the person I’m hopelessly in love with. I’ll stop stitching and piecing together tens of thousands of lovely words, squandering a sea of ink on smooth ivory pages, growing flowers in our garden of words, and illuminating the night sky with tales that twinkled like stars and grew into constellations over time.
I should have known better than anyone that we were no good. But humans can be foolish and selfish once they’ve tasted the venom of love. I hoped and hoped, turning a blind eye to the truth. Yet everything has an end—running out of words to sow, ink to spill, space to plant flower buds, and room for newborn stars in our makeshift heavens.
And still, I whispered: my first love.
Chapter II: Disenchanted, Fearing the Ghost of You.
When I see these stacks of papers covertly packed inside an envelope, my heart quivers in pain. I read each and every one with a sad grimace, knowing I never had the chance to present them to you; the sheets where I wrote the songs, poems, hues, and flowers that I associate with you.
As I threw away these traces of you, I couldn’t help but think of how lovely you were when our hands were intertwined. The heartwarming contentment it gave me was immeasurable. Unforgettable midnights: every nook and cranny of my memory is scratched by images of the moments when our bodies synchronized flawlessly, quenching our carnal desires.
And I thought: my first love, how could I ever forget you?
Chapter III: The Patron Saint of Liars.
Now, as I look back, I see that I shouldn’t have deluded myself. In the end, you were the one who felt betrayed and suffered the greatest pain. Allow me to be self-centered one final time. I apologize for twisting my final memory of you, one that falsely encompasses a moment where you are vehemently angry with me—your eyes filled with resentment and rage, tearing straight through my heart. I apologize if this is how I will remember you. It’s the only way I’ll ever be able to forget us. Please forgive me.
Even in anger, you remain my first love.
Chapter IV: Behind the Sea and Drowning in Downpour.
I keep finding remnants of you in places I swore I’d cleared: creases in old notebooks, the scent of a song, the way my hand hesitates before writing anything beautiful. You were the blueprint for every metaphor I stitched into my skin, and now I’m left cataloging the ruins.
I’ve become the archivist of our almosts: the letters never sent, the glances that lingered too long, the dreams that dissolved before morning. I file them away like sacred relics, knowing they’ll haunt me in the quiet hours when memory becomes ritual.
And still, I confess: my first love lives in every archive.
Chapter V: The Shipped Gold Standard.
There’s a map I’ve drawn in my mind, tracing every silence between us. Each pause, each breath held too long, each word swallowed before it could bloom. I charted the distance between your heart and mine, and it was always wider than I dared admit.
I walk the terrain of our unspoken truths, barefoot and bleeding, hoping that if I name the voids, they’ll stop echoing. But silence is a language too, and I was never fluent in yours.
And so I whisper to the silence: my first love, I still hear you.
Chapter VI: Truce, Anathema.
I visited the shrine of forgetting today. Lit a candle for the version of me that loved you without armor. Whispered prayers to the wind, asking it to carry away the fragments I still clutch like talismans.
But forgetting is not erasure it’s transformation. I will not unlove you. I will transmute you. You will become the salt in my poems, the shadow in my laughter, the ghost that teaches me how to stay when I’m tempted to vanish.
And in the transformation, I honor you: my first love.
Act VII: Grateful for Your Dangerous Blues.
I am grateful to have met you. Grateful for the way you taught me how love can bloom even in fragile soil. Grateful for the laughter, the warmth, the nights when the world felt small enough for just us.
I accept the ending not as a failure, but as a closing chapter. You were my first love, and that truth will never fade. The ache is real, but so is the gratitude for the chance to know you, to hold you, to write you into my story.
And so I bow to the memory: my first love, thank you.
"What remains is not ruin but residues: ink-stained fingers, a heart that still beats, a voice that still writes. Love was the fire, memory the smoke, forgetting the wind. And I carry the ashes as proof that I lived, that I loved, that I let go."
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