From Then On, My Life Without You

Some loves burn so bright they leave you breathless—fireworks in your mind, fizz in your veins, sweetness dissolving on your tongue. But what happens when that person walks through the rest of their life without you in it? We met in summer's heat and parted in winter's cold, our connection unraveling like thread through fate's careless fingers. I imagined a thousand ways you might leave me, yet never once prepared for the day I would leave you. Now I'm a lonely island adrift in an endless sea, running from you only to find you everywhere I turn, seeing your face each time I look away.