My muscles finally seized. A battle lost. My arms dropped. My eyes closed. “I’ll remember that I love you.” I knew he couldn’t hear me, but I made the vow just in case. Silence fell, and the world paused. Everything stopped, and I fought to find a way to lock a part of him away in my mind, to choose just one memory for safekeeping. I could save him, revisit it. It was a lifeline for me to hold on to until I made it back to him because I would make it back to him. My world. My heart. My lost soul.
