First Love

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An unlit candle sits upon a desk, hoping, praying to someday find a flame, the perfect match to ignite that listed-after passion known as love.

I was alone, nobody, and she was everyone.She was my waking moment and the last image I saw before I drifted asleep― a bittersweet fantasy of everything and nothing at all. She was quick and witty and spry, the embodiment of youth. I was wide eyes and tenderness and quiet questions in the dead of night, a mere whisper masked by a thousand screams. She was foggy breath and the sharp chill of forgotten gloves. A flame as cold as ice, a fire carved of marble, a nap to a lost, frostbitten soul. I relished in her heat and shivered in her cold, not realizing that loving her was loving death until I had fallen in love and asleep in the snow.

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