Ashes Between Us

She is an artist of words and strokes-
calligraphy her language, silence her companion.
He is a firefighter-brave in public, burdened in private.

Both carry battles no one sees,
hidden beneath calm exteriors.

Their worlds overlap in small moments,
yet their hearts keep secrets locked behind closed doors.

Two souls living close, yet miles apart,
each fighting their own fire within.

Next door, they lived.
Wall to wall. Silence to silence.
Two survivors pretending the past hadn't touched them.

And between them?
Ashes.
Smoke.
And something neither of them dared name.

But love, like fire, begins quietly.
With sparks.
With moments shared in silence.
With a word spoken softly in the dark.
And a glance that lingered longer than it should.

This is a story of how two people met between burning walls and learned to breathe again.
Of how mercy quietly wrote their fate.
Of how love didn't shout - it flickered, slow and sacred, until it became light.

Turn the page. Let the fire speak.