The Space Between Us I. I have walked through mornings that do not remember light, and yet, in the hush before dawn, your name drifts through me, soft as a feather falling, persistent as the tide pressing against the shore. It is not a voice, not a memory, but a pulse beneath my ribs, a current that carries everything I have ever felt toward you. Your presence bends the air, turning silence into song, ordinary streets into temples, and even shadows pause to trace your outline as though they too remember what it is to belong. I have tried to count the ways you leave traces in me, but the numbers dissolve like stars fading at sunrise, and still, I find more— in the tilt of your head, in the hush before your laughter, in the invisible brush of your hand against mine. II. Love is not always fire. Sometimes it is the slow bloom of light, the patient warmth that spreads across a room, into the quiet corners where loneliness waits. You are that ligh...