Ever After

by Riley Hart

“You are pure and real and complicated. To someone like me, you might simply be everything.”

“I am just a man who longs to touch your skin and breathe in your scent.”

“Maybe you will write it one day…a story or a poem of a prince who desired his valet like his lungs yearned for air.”

My mind is at war because I yearn for more of what will eventually break my heart, shatter it until it is a million flakes of snow instead of a whole.”