Loving You Was a War I Lost Beautifully

<p><strong>What is love but a wound dressed in verse?</strong><br>Thus begins this collection-not in joy but in ache. Not in victory but in surrender.</p><p>The stories within are written in a voice rich in melancholy ornate with longing. Though fiction each title could be a page torn from the soul's diary: lovers torn by duty souls undone by silence hearts tethered to ghosts.</p><p>In their form they are poetic prose-vignettes sculpted from language as much as from sentiment. They speak in the cadence of old yet their grief is timeless.</p><p>Let these laments serve as stars across the dark sky of memory. Some may shimmer with sorrow others blaze with regret-but all are lit by love's dying fire.</p><p>If thou hast ever loved and lost then thou knowest the terrain.<br>Let us walk it together-softly bravely beautifully.</p>