Friendship
Sleeveless Hearts and Star-Spangled Tears
My mother used to tell me, “Try not to be so passionate about everything.” She said it gently, sometimes with a sigh, as if she were trying to save me from a world that would never understand the weight of a heart carried openly.
By Shohel Rana7 months ago in Poets
A love that glowed in secret, fading into a celestial mystery
The stargazing hill on the outskirts of Elderglow was a forgotten place, where wildflowers tangled with the night sky’s reflection. In the summer of 2022, it was where Rowan, a twenty-year-old with ink-stained fingers and a secondhand telescope, first met Selene, the nineteen-year-old daughter of Gideon Holt, the tech mogul whose company powered the town’s economy. Rowan’s life was one of library books and odd jobs, patching together dreams under a leaky roof. Selene’s was one of glass-walled mansions and her father’s unyielding ambitions.
By Shohel Rana7 months ago in Poets
