After The Applause

They glide across the ice like a love story no one dares to question-
perfect, effortless, unbreakable.

The world watches them with admiration,
believing in the way their hands find each other,
in the way their eyes linger just a second too long.

But love, like ice, is fragile.

And somewhere between silent arguments and unspoken truths,
they fell apart.

No one knows.
No one sees the distance hidden behind every practiced smile,
or the hesitation beneath every touch.

With the national stage waiting and everything at stake,
they continue the illusion-
a romance carefully choreographed,
a story they no longer own.

Yet the closer they skate,
the louder their hearts become.

Because some memories echo.
Some feelings remain.
And some love-

no matter how broken-
still finds its way back in every step, every fall, every rise.