The Sky He Gave Me

<p>She used to count heartbeats.<br>Not in seconds. In silences.<br>In the stillness between rain and thunder.<br>In the way people paused after saying goodbye.<br>In the way the stars blinked like they were remembering something too far away.<br>She had a fragile heart - everyone reminded her.<br>Doctors nurses relatives calendars.<br>Like it was her name.<br>The Girl Who Might Not Make It Past Twenty.<br>But she never feared dying.<br>What she feared... was not living before it came.<br>She never imagined she'd meet a boy who feared the opposite.</p><p>He didn't talk about his past.<br>Didn't like birthdays or candles.<br>Said love was too loud for someone like him.<br>But when he looked at her - quiet cracked careful -<br>he smiled like he finally believed in tomorrow.</p><p>They were opposites.<br>She counted heartbeats.<br>He tried to ignore his.<br>And yet... somehow they met.<br>Somehow they stitched their wounds into one story.<br>A story that was never meant to last.<br>But this isn't just a story about endings.<br>It's about the kind of love that lives on.<br>Even when one of them doesn't.</p><p>This is how it all began-<br>With a boy who had no one to give his heart to.<br>And a girl who never thought she'd have the chance to keep one.</p>